Sentence examples for not very gently from inspiring English sources

By then the Pittsburgh crash was big news on the networks, and television anchors were starting to suggest, sometimes not very gently, that Mr. Bush was absent at a time of national crisis.

"O.K., now, very gently".

People saved the most gasoline when they pushed down on the accelerator briskly and then shifted quickly, keeping the revolutions per minute low -- not by accelerating very gently.

Gunderson's op-ed also charged, not very kindly or gently, that "some in Congress" were hindering his sector "for the purpose of scoring political points".

But, he added, profit-making was still "a bit far off" and it would be introduced "very gently, not in a big bang sort of way".

And Ron Paul is not going to go very gently into that good night, so to speak.

If and when you do get to stroke him, do it very gently (but not so you tickle him) and talk to him quietly.

Allow me to say this very gently, so as not to give the Guardian's lawyers palpitations, but not all the money invested in that building may have been earned in the sense normally understood by earthlings such as you and me.

"They were all so sick I couldn't train them, and when I did start up again I had to go very gently so as not to cause a relapse.

Although I shouldn't have, I touched it, very gently, perhaps to be sure it was real.

And then the day that David Greybeard took the nut from my hand and then didn't want the nut, then very gently squeezed my fingers like chimp reassurance, which was a clear communication between me and him - it was a very extraordinary moment.