Sentence examples for we were gently from inspiring English sources

In a series of programs, we were gently warned to let our children work out their own problems on campus.

We gave ourselves up to this one afternoon, after which we were gently wrapped in sarongs and sent in dream-like states to the white sand beach.

That night, tucked up in our huge bed we were gently being lolled to sleep by the croaking frogs outside when a loud snorting noise made up jump.

I see us climbing out of the tilting wreckage, distraught but unhurt, and wonder if we were gently nudged off the road and thus saved from some other horrible highway fate by the gold cupid pin my husband bought at a garage sale and wears on his jacket for good luck.

We were gently and compassionately advised by Donna's oncologist that it would be perfectly reasonable to not treat the cancer and let Donna enjoy the time she had left to the best of her ability.

We're gently hassled by some out-of-towners, but otherwise the men play it very aloof.

As the novel's guilty lovers feverishly grapple with that question, we are gently reminded that beauty can spring from sublimation, too.

We are gently queried for permission to engage, and with social contract in hand we answer questions, catch up from where we last left off, and negotiate the outline of our next meeting.

We are gently learning to become honest with ourselves, about ourselves.

And through touch-screen hardware and simplified control pad schemes, we are gently nudging down the barrier for initial entry.

And so we are gently eased into the world of the Codys, an Oceanside crime family – sun-drenched California beach towns can have crime families too – with Jonathan Lisco ("Southland," "Halt and Catch Fire") adapting David Michôd's 2010 film about a modern Australian Ma Barker Ellen Barkinn) and her frequently shirtless sons (Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Shawn Hatosy).