Sentence examples for stop gently from inspiring English sources

Stop gently patting my arm!

If the child doesn't stop, gently pick them up if they're on top of something, and place them in the time out area.

If the ex is truly behaving in a toxic way, this can end up poisoning your marriage and it needs to be put to a stop, gently but forcefully before this happens.

Professor Sherr is adamant that breast-fondling behaviour should be stopped, gently but firmly.

Here we find one of the novel's most arresting metaphors in the shape of an old-fashioned elevator called a "paternoster," which Grass describes as "a chain of cabins in constant motion, passing turning points in cellar and attic, rising and falling, never stopping, gently rattling, not without suppressed groans and sighs, yet as reliable as -- well, all right, as a prayer wheel".

If you ramble on, Wolf will stop you gently, oh so gently.

"Greek democracy today chose to stop going gently into the night," Varoufakis wrote.

Quoting poet Dylan Thomas: "Greek democracy today chose to stop going gently into the night.

On the election of Syriza: Greek democracy today chose to stop going gently into the night.

Abreu legged out a gift triple in the third when neither center fielder Gómez nor left fielder Young bent over to stop his gently hopping drive from reaching the wall.

He was talking of his fellow Greeks, who he said chose, "to quote your own Dylan Thomas, to stop going gently into the night and to rage against the dying of the light".