CARESS in a Sentence

Learn CARESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
117 example sentences for CARESS, such as:
1. He caressed his wife lovingly.
2. His hands gently caressed her body.
3. Half she wished he would not caress her so.
4. He did not answer, except to continue to caress her.
5. She wondered if she ought to be offended by his caress.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CARESS
caress
 n.  a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)
 v.  touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1  Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  A word of tenderness, even a parting caress when she was getting on the train, would have held her back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  There were crowds of people in the depot or she would never have invited this caress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  She could not wholly understand or analyze what he was feeling, but it seemed almost as if she too had been brushed by whispering skirts, touching her softly in a last caress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  She had heard Vida Sherwin and Mrs. Warren caress the virtue of the Thanatopsis in establishing the rest-room and in sharing with the city council the expense of maintaining it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  She wondered if she ought to be offended by his caress.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Edna took him in her arms, and seating herself in the rocker, began to coddle and caress him, calling him all manner of tender names, soothing him to sleep.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV
9  He did not answer, except to continue to caress her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
10  He kissed her with a degree of passion which had not before entered into his caress, and strained her to him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
11  There was a caress in the soft winds; and the whole mood of the darkness, he thought, was one of sympathy for himself in his distress.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  And there his hand softly, softly, stroked the curve of her flank, in the blind instinctive caress.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  Half she wished he would not caress her so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  Shoving with his left hand, he laid his right on her round white wrist, softly enfolding her wrist, with a caress.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Disregarding my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand over his head with a sweet womanly caress.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
Example Sentence:
1  The lonely child is longing for the caress of his mother.
2  My heart, with its lapping waves of son, longs to caress this green world of the sunny day.
3  His hands gently caressed her body.
4  Your body contains many erogenous zones, areas that lead to a feeling of sexual excitement when they are caressed.
5  He caressed his wife lovingly.