Example sentences for: gentler

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

  • Trend Keeping Tabs would like to go on record as vehemently opposing: The kinder, gentler National Enquirer , which is apparently modeling itself after Reader's Digest . The Enquirer is now filled with headlines such as "Cat's Incredible: Kitty walks 2000 miles back home" and "Millionaire Businessman Learns to Read at 56!"

  • He writes that several years ago he tried to persuade Norman to devise a screenplay about Shakespeare's relationship with the homosexual playwright Christopher Marlowe, whose murder in a tavern in 1593 forms a subplot to Shakespeare in Love . Other scholars are gentler on the film.

  • Flagellation and similar rigors introduced into other Italian monasteries by the Irish monk Columbanus were soon modified by the gentler Benedictine rule.

  • In fact, the Chinese martial arts and such offshoots as the gentler exercise forms known as taiqi have their symbolic, if not literal, birthplace at this monastery.

  • Religious nut Gary Bauer took it out on Bush Sr.: "The last Bush talked about kinder and gentler, and that resulted in an election loss."


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