(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.
Fondle
Definition:
(v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, the Schmidt-Furlow investigators looked at instances where female interrogators had fondled prisoners, or pretended to splash menstrual blood upon them.
(2) I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was in my headphones, and then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper fondling my breasts," she said.
(3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(4) Case description methodology was used to obtain treatment acceptability ratings for mentally retarded and nondisabled (normal) sex offenders across three different offenses (masturbation, rape, and child fondling) and eight interventions.
(5) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(6) He was suspended for a few months, and then four years later – after a different man, an assistant principal, was arrested for fondling and exposing himself to a freshman – he was suspended again.
(7) The pair did not have sex though he fondled her and reportedly kissed her "roughly".
(8) David Trent: Pull down your trousers and pants and inconclusively fondle yourself in front of a woman wearing a fancy dress dog suit.
(9) The offenses reported included fondling and masturbation (30 rings), oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse (21 rings), and production of child pornography (two rings).
(10) The relationship between sexual behavior pre-post hysterectomy differences and sexual satisfaction only showed a significant correlation for the sexual behavior of coitus (r = -2.012, p less than .001), and fondling of sex organs (r = -.1121, p less than .05).
(11) If you move on from kissing to fondling to oral sex to vaginal intercourse, make sure you’re both comfortable at each stages.
(12) Parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar told Kelly their son had confessed to fondling four of his sisters , saying: “He’s very sorry.” Kelly asked the Duggars pointed questions, but she also gave them lots of leeway to complain about “anti-Christian bias” and argue that the real victim of the situation was Josh, who, they say, had his privacy violated by the leaked report.
(13) The most common form of sexual activity was group sex; the next most common was fondling.
(14) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(15) Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse.
(16) All sex crimes against children – both penetration and fondling – are treated with great seriousness, and there is little difference in sentencing between them, she says.
(17) For the low income group, the sexual behavior with the most significant decrease in frequency was fondling the sex organs (t = 2.21, p less than .05).
(18) When he does, he just wants to hold me tightly, and just fondling me vaguely seems bring him satisfaction, though he doesn't ejaculate as such.
(19) The fondling was done over the girls’ clothes and, except in two cases, happened when the girls were asleep, Jim Bob Duggar said in a Fox one-hour special about the case.
(20) Think about detail in a novel, the details that please you, and learn to fondle these details.