Sentence examples for say softly from inspiring English sources

"You could try another entrance," I say softly.

'Baby,' he would say softly and glare back with vast glowering eyes, 'yes, baby.

"Eli's had a great season," Brady would say, softly, disconsolately, referring to the seven fourth-quarter comebacks engineered by Manning, including the biggest of all Sunday night at Lucas Oil Stadium.

After a dinner with him that I attended last week, as we said our goodbyes, I overheard one of my fellow conservatives say softly to the president-elect, "Sir, I'll be praying for you".

She insisted on being called a reviewer, in fact, and not a critic, a distinction I understood as being between an all-powerful and hoity-toity judge-type (the critic) and a sort of fellow-traveller (the reviewer), one who approaches a book in a spirit of camaraderie and aims to represent that book in a piece of writing as carefully crafted as the book itself (which is not to say "softly").

"Next time," I say softly, "let's plan the trip together".

"Zenmeban?" he said softly.

"Discovery," she says softly.

"No," he said softly.

"Oh," she says, softly.

'Yes,' he said softly.