Sentence examples for land gently from inspiring English sources

It doesn't hurt to slap the fly down, as the natural bugs don't land gently.

The actors give the gags plenty of breathing room, letting them land gently instead of pushing them hard.

As I land gently on the ground, the desire to get back to the top of the slope to repeat the jump is overwhelming.

No dark Satanic (and now shuttered) mills around here, just green and pleasant land — gently rolling, tidy beyond belief, crisscrossed with hedge-lined lanes, and dotted with Norman castles, fields of daffodils, and warm, Hardyesque pubs.

As director of the lunar module program for the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Mr. Gavin had to make sure that the craft -- a combination two-stage rocket and two-man spacecraft weighing 32,000 pounds -- would land gently on the moon's surface, then take off again on its own power to rejoin a larger spacecraft in lunar orbit.

William Williams visited Davenport and provided a brief description in his journal: Davenport is situated on the Iowa site of the river on a very extensive flat of land, gently rising from the River Mississippi for a mile back, when the bluff rises to considerable height affording most beautiful sites for improvements.

Then a paper airplane landed gently in his lap.

Ice chips and juice flew through the air, landing gently on patrons.

It dodges past your flapping Jerry Lewis hands and lands gently on the turf at your feet.

Philae covered the final fourteen miles of its four-billion-mile journey in about seven hours, landing gently — more gently than ESA expected — on 67P at just after 11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time.

Computers in cockpits now give managers ample information on whether a pilot is good at keeping fuel consumption down, landing gently and so on.Airlines that want to keep pilots sweet may also have to fall back on an old-fashioned remedy: good management.