Example sentences for: tender

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

  • Glenn Close's tender mama gorilla has clearly been to finishing school; Lance Henriksen's massive patriarch must have learned to talk from watching after-school specials: "I said he could stay," he grits, after baby Tarzan gets adopted by his missus, "That doesn't make him my son."

  • Carmela sees through Tony, but takes tender care of him anyway because, frankly, what else is she going to do?

  • Out of Sight was tender and charming, as was, in its gross-out way, There's Something About Mary . And, on the indie front, The Opposite of Sex , Buffalo 66 , and Pi have proved that there's still commercial life after Sundance.

  • Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.

  • As in a tender offer, shareholders are guaranteed profit--either through cash payments or more shares in the new company--if the takeover is successful.


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