(n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
(n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.
Example Sentences:
(1) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(2) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
(3) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
(4) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(5) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
(6) "Now I just hope to be able to recover my wife's body, to be able to know what happened in those final moments, to be able to caress her before burying her near to her mother, in Sicily, as she wished," Vincenzi told the Italian daily La Repubblica.
(7) Except for past enjoyment of sexual intercourse and of touching and caressing without sexual intercourse, all analyses revealed sex differences reflecting more activity and enjoyment by men.
(8) First it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it.
(9) Physicians need to appreciate the spectrum of sexual function among older patients, which includes emotional intimacy, touching, and caressing as sexual activity as well as intercourse.
(10) What a departure from his previous programmes where we get to see Jamie caress his coriander-infused salad leaves, massage rosemary into his meat, and gently stir the stock bubbling away on the stove.
(11) 77% of them actively caressed the newborn in this position.
(12) The content analysis indicated that at least six domains are sampled, including seduction activities, body caressing, oral-genital and genital stimulation, intercourse, masturbation, and erotic media.
(13) Of the fathers present during delivery, 55% caressed the newborn, and 50% talked to it within the first 15 minutes.
(14) Of these activities, only touching and caressing showed a significant decline from the 80s to the 90s, with further analyses revealing a significant decline in this activity for men but not for women.
(15) In austerity Britain in 2014 a smartphone may well be the last thing you caress at night – and, it seems, increasingly, the only thing that gets turned on in the morning.
(16) The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
(17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
(18) Her voice is plump and pleasure-seeking, prodding and caressing a song until it yields more delights than its author had intended, bringing a spark of vivacity and a measure of cool to even the hokier material.
(19) They stroked it and caressed it and generally had the Welsh running round in circles for three parts of the game.
(20) Ismet, 14 years old, had been made to lie down on his stomach here and his head was here" - she swept her hand over the bottom step of the charred house, and dreamily caressed a clump of grass which had sprouted at one end, where her son's head had been that morning.
Cress
Definition:
(n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The capacity of new selected sorts of rape and winter cress oils to decrease a high cholesterol level in the blood and liver was studied in "cholesterol" rats.
(2) In Martinique water-cress beds constituted the last transmission sites for schistosomiasis.
(3) The uptake of 14C from various 14C-labeled organic chemicals from different chemical classes by barley and cress seedlings from soil was studied for 7 days in a closed aerated laboratory apparatus.
(4) The effect of washing mustard and cress, cucumber and the different layers of lettuce leaves was examined.
(5) It is suggested that rape oil ("Agat", "Kubanskoye") and winter cress oil ("Sibiryachka") initiate the lipid transport in the blood and tissues thus leading to the reduction of the cholesterol level in the blood and liver tissue in "cholesterol" rats.
(6) Experimental studies on 16 water-cress pools with cases of human fasciolasis in Limousin were undertaken.
(7) The intermediate host snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, was considered in the past as a common species in the different habitats of the island, but during the last decade it has been found only in water-cress beds.
(8) Several of these water-cress cultures contained mixed populations of B. glabrata and B. straminea.
(9) The danger of eating water cress is emphasized for this momentary delight may lead to a chronic debilitating illness.
(10) The effect of nonpurified condensate obtained during prolonged cultivation of batata in a sealed chamber upon batata cuttings and seedlings of garden cress, radish and Chinese cabbage was studied.
(11) 6-HKA was found to be devoid of antibacterial and antifungal activity, and was inactive in the Avena-coleoptile and cress-seed-germination tests.
(12) You’ve been seeing him on the TV for years and years and years,” Cress said, adding that the frontrunner stands for “jobs, money, [not] getting ripped off by other countries”.
(13) Cress, who owns a fireworks business in New Mexico and imports his stock from China, was unperturbed by Trump’s promise of tariffs on imports from the country.
(14) Normal human plasma contained no antibodies to structural proteins of tobacco mosaic, cucumber mosaic, and rock-cress mosaic viruses.
(15) This greater appearance is probably related to the dietary habits in those areas, since the consumption of water cress is undoubtedly the principal source of contamination and is entirely responsible for the rest of the epidemiology of the diseases in humans.
(16) The two remaining water-cress beds have dried up and were abandoned.
(17) However, the water-cress was that which presented the highest frequencies of enteroparasites.
(18) After extraction from the cells, the compounds were purified with column and thin layer layer chromatography on silica gel, bioassayed for inhibition of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) radicle elongation, and identified with ms, ir, nmr, and co-chromatography with authentic standards.
(19) It was given as sodium tellurate, sodium tellurite, metallic colloid and intrinsically bound in cress.
(20) Thai marinated monk fish with sweet potato fondant, pak choi, thai red curry sauce and coriander cress.