(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.
Pamper
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
(v. t.) To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) (3) A 2006 Bobcat movie in which the lead ... pampers her pooch.
(2) A small group of us, including a student recovering from exams, a woman with a broken heart and a pair that had stayed at Zamzam before and vowed to return, gathered for some pre-departure pampering.
(3) When it comes to tuition fees, do not believe the voices who tell us that the average Briton thinks students are a pampered lot who should get with the government's plans and count themselves lucky.
(4) There would be no capitulation, no surrender, no private jet into pampered exile.
(5) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn is criticised in much of the media for questioning a system that engorges a tiny minority of wealthy executives while buying the acquiescence of millions through a pampered existence of material excess.
(7) Social maladjustment in the child was significantly related to maternal guilt (P less than 0.05) and pampering (P less than 0.02).
(8) The catch is that you have to fail, or rather pass, a breathalyser test to be allowed in – to make sure that you still have alcohol in your system, that you’re properly hung over and not a healthy type who just fancies some pampering.
(9) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.
(10) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
(11) Decca went from being a pampered, uneducated aristocratic child to a fierce civil rights campaigner in the US; Diana remained unapologetically devoted to Mosley to the day he died; Nancy lived a somewhat lonely life in Paris, writing novels.
(12) But the arms race to provide ever greater pampering, cuisine and luxury threatens to endanger their renaissance.
(13) Yes, there are many reasons why the apex of society is such a stitch-up for the pampered and privileged, but the internship filter is certainly one of them.
(14) The pampered plutocracy Last year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at an ever-worsening financial crisis, which will see the amount of public debt owed per person rise from its 2010 level of £15,000 to £23,000 in 2017.
(15) He, too, has a grown-up child – an arrogant and pampered one.
(16) So it's off to LA for a weekend of "luxury pampering" while Bullard sets about Emily's house with his team of long-suffering design lackeys.
(17) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
(18) But a systematic policy of pampering the wealthy, be they domestic or foreign, allied to a callous disregard of the interest of our own young, has led to the economic polarisation we see today.
(19) It was an enormous pleasure to be so pampered despite our age.
(20) Twitter has taken some heat for this, creating 1,600 millionaires since its IPO in November 2013, adding to the perception of a pampered tech elite detached from the soul of the city.