Sentence examples for gently picked from inspiring English sources

She stirred and I gently picked her up; she was cold but responsive.

With his thumb and forefinger, the Mets' right-hander gently picked up a shoe.

"He was sleeping in the corner of the garden, and I just gently picked him up," Mr. McKosky said.

Then Kim's bodyguard gently picked her up and placed her on a table, so everybody could see Kim.

She uses the ingredients of her previous albums — gently picked guitar, a hushed voice, modest electronics — but jettisons any pop expectations.

He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight.

And, of course, the diction gently picks up the Biblical thread of the reference to Jacob and Esau, a story that begins with a father's blessing.

The cabby bends down in front of his cab and gently picks up a newborn bird that has fallen from its nest.

He seems not to be smashing up meaning but, rather, to be gently picking up old pieces of meaning that he has found lying about.

Her delicate songs survey life as a mother, sister, wife and woman, gently picking apart the habitual way of viewing those roles.

In fairness, family films released in the run-up to Christmas tend to start rather gently, picking up steam when schools break up.