Sentence examples for had grown soft from inspiring English sources
He also worried that his generation had grown soft.
Then, too, people sensed that the country had grown soft and decadent.
He had grown soft in their nineteen years together; she was his last wife, he always said, last and best.
If his features had grown soft and round with age, though, his shooting eye was still sharp.
Europe, he wrote in 1938, had grown soft and feminine from pleasure seeking, becoming "like a woman who had just escaped a frightening accident.
Such quixotic behaviour prompted his old Oxford friend Barbara Castle to complain that he had "grown soft on a diet of soft options".
His health had been frail in recent months, his soft voice had grown softer.
She acknowledged that the trend has been cited, less benignly, by those asserting that America's youth has grown soft.
But younger people have grown soft in this country, and now I fear that the northerners, who have lived through so much will out-compete us".
