Sentence examples for softly running from inspiring English sources

"Gas at Youngstown, I got 18.85 miles per gallon, driving between 60 and 70 miles per hour," he said softly, running his index finger down the page.

She is also a playwright whose "Killing Me Softly" ran last fall at the Billie Holiday Theater in Brooklyn.

All is tenderness at the end, though, as Mr. Barroso comes up behind Ms. Zaballos, gently embraces her and softly runs his hand down her arm.

Matsen gasped softly and ran his hand over its peeling, mottled surface.

Somehow he persuaded it to come out softly and run gently down a slope some 60 feet before settling by the hole.

Note: O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! is sometimes translated as "Run softly, softly, horses of the night".

Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song … Datta.

You could say I drink to recall; run softly till you end your song.

When, for instance, the narrator looks out at the night and thinks, "Sweet Hudson... run softly, till I end my song," he is, of course, quoting from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" — "Sweet Thames..."...

When, for instance, the narrator looks out at the night and thinks, "Sweet Hudson... run softly, till I end my song," he is, of course, quoting from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" — "Sweet Thames......

It's a poem of great charm, and the refrain, "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song," is one of the best-known lines of poetry in the language.