Example sentences for: gentle

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

  • This mixture, which could have produced a society fraught with problems, has evolved into a gentle, sociable, and happy people, proud of their homeland and the progress they have made since independence in 1973.

  • But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.

  • He was "slight of stature, gentle of demeanor and passionate about human rights," according to the Post . In life, he had "seemed bright and open and full of promise."

  • Thanks in part to his "wandering eye and wickie-wickie ways," he has lost his wife, Jessie (Farrah Fawcett), and two children (he calls them his "beauties") to Horace (Todd Allen), a gentle, callow minister who seems to be, in every way, Sonny's opposite.

  • The drive over Lions Gate Bridge to Vancouver’s North Shore suburbs along Marine Drive and the Upper Levels Highway (Route 99) makes a gentle introduction to your exploration of the Pacific coast and interior.


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