Example sentences for: caress

How can you use “caress” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The island is aligned almost east-to-west in the water so that sunrise wakes the eastern tip, proceeds to caress the length of the island, and kisses the western tip “good night. ”

  • The lovers' tongues caress each other, dance about the teeth and inner cheeks, bathe in each other's oral fluids.

  • They were gross, childish stag affairs: In plain sight of everyone, one colleague would caress her thigh, daring her to make him stop and inviting all the men in the room to giggle.

  • Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.

  • caress ( v .) To treat with fondness, affection or kindness.


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