"somewhat gently" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that an action was performed in a gentler manner than expected, or to a lesser degree than what was useful or necessary. For example, "She put down the vase somewhat gently."
From the shape of the DTA curves, we can see that acute exothermic peaks were obtained during the coke combustion over all the spent catalysts (Figure 10A, B, D), while a somewhat gently sloping exothermic peak was obtained over activated MgHZ-360-a (Figure 10C).
The themes "Roseanne" had to introduce somewhat gently back then show up as Facebook photo memes now.
I had eventually challenged him on that, somewhat gently, and his only response was to give up attending Naval Reserve meetings, claiming they were requiring too much time away from me.
Pull somewhat gently so that your lips stay together.
When they've calmed down somewhat, gently ask them if they really knew they looked like that when they get angry.
Rub (somewhat gently) a new dry towel over the entire surface with the grain again to remove excess oil.
In America, we are now cruising somewhat more gently into a new era.
Nevertheless, the rise in nucleosome and DNA levels leading from healthy individuals over M0 patients to M1 patients was similar, albeit the inclination of the DNA levels of these three cohorts was somewhat more gently than that of the nucleosome levels.
This endearing, if somewhat twee, movie gently reminds you of its truth.
If you want to stay on the somewhat cautious side, gently suck on the side of her neck and see how she takes to it.
As it moved, it flattened out--although quantum fluctuations wrinkled its surface somewhat--and gently accelerated toward our membrane.
