"run gently" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a way of moving or to advise someone to move or do something in a slow and easy way. For example, you might say: "Run gently along the shoreline so that you don't stir up too much sand."
Learn to run gently, and you can wear anything.
Somehow he persuaded it to come out softly and run gently down a slope some 60 feet before settling by the hole.
A video filmed by the family after a rainstorm clearly shows the mortar on the back wall falling out when a screwdriver was run gently along it.
Nestling at the foot of Court Hill, on a sheltered south-facing site largely protected from the winds which blow off the Bristol Channel, the front lawns of Clevedon Court run gently down to the perimeter wall.
To acclimatize the mice to the apparatus, mice were run gently downhill on a treadmill inclined at 15° for 10 min at 9 m/min on day 1, then 10 min at 10 m/min on day 2 and 10 min at 10 m/min on day 3. On day 4, the mice were run for 10 min at 10 m/min, at which point the speed was increased within a few seconds to 16 m/min.
"Sure," they say, and a few seconds later I'm running, gently at first, but soon moving steadily along.
[She] might have proved a sturdy figure in some resistance movement, tender in sensibility yet prepared to learn how to break a Nazi neck". There is, yes, a vein of disappointment in Thomson's mash note, the sense of a field running gently fallow.
I thought of the Isar River running gently through Munich, while just twenty kilometers away, scores of people were dying in agony.
Run water gently into the nasal passages to help clear excess mucus and moisten membranes.
Over its 45-minute running time, we see Niska inch further towards free will, while the other liberated synths run around gently rusting industrial sites looking by turns stiff and seductive.
On reporting to the class, however, Lilly's group explained that they thought the flaps might assist the plane to "run through, gently through the air but it kind of dragged it".
