Sentence examples for stopped gently from inspiring English sources

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

Stop gently patting my arm!

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

The cell growth was stopped by gently layering trichloroacetic acid (50%, 50 µL) on top of the medium in all the wells.

After removal of the needle bleeding was stopped by gently pressing the puncture site with a commercially available cotton swab combined with a small piece of a styptic cellulose fleece.

The staining was developed in solution C (2.5% sodium carbonate; 0.0075% formaldehyde) and the reaction was stopped by gently shaking the gel in an EDTA solution (1.46% EDTA in H2O) for 10 min. The protein of interest was cut out from the gel and destained twice for 10 min each in washing solution (10 mM K4Fe CN 6, 66 mM S2O3).

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

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.

"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.