Example sentences for: tenderness

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

  • What distinguishes Saramago from Borges is his tenderness and his explicit, even obsessive, curiosity about human emotion.

  • They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.

  • By contrast to the condescension of Pleasantville , genuine tenderness for the time could be seen in The Last Picture Show , a 1971 film about real life in 1951.

  • The notorious Chinese binding of female feet emphasized their tenderness by reducing them to living sweetmeats wrapped in silk--the lily foot was meant to slide easily into a lover's mouth.

  • It concluded, "Perhaps even Monica, watching him from afar, felt a last shudder of tenderness and regret for her ex-lover, so important and so alone."


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