How to Use caress in a Sentence

caress

1 of 2 verb

• A warm breeze caressed her face.
• She caressed the baby's cheek.
• The video is of his Ally being caressed in the bath by Winter.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2017
• Kawasaki said holding one of the pots in the palm of one hand, caressing it with the other.
  — Deepa Bharath, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2017
• The ball banked high off the backboard, caressing the front of the rim before falling through the net as the buzzer sounded.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• His pudgy finger would have caressed the launch buttons of nukes.
  — Doug Bock Clark, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
• The notes that come out of his career never assail your ears; the caress them.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Her fingertips travel to the lone whisker and then caress it like a fetish.
  — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
• The first sex robots won’t be able to caress, grab, or thrust against their human lovers.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2017
• At one traffic stop, Brady was snapped caressing Shayk’s face as the two talked in the front seat of his black Rolls Royce.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• At one traffic light, Brady was snapped caressing Shayk’s face as the two talked in the front seat of his black Rolls Royce.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• People gently caressed his head to pacify the man who seemed to be in his 60s.
  — Amanat Khullar, Quartz India, 28 Feb. 2020
• Ahhhh, the feel of the beach breezes caressing our weary toes!
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• In the big room, the burgundy canoe shone, caressed by sunlight.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• When the little girl emerged, Ms. Paredes rushed forward to clutch and caress her.
  — Mark Abramson, New York Times, 9 May 2021
• But always there was a longing to hold her, caress a hand, put a great-grandchild on her lap.
  — Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• The ball caresses Mohsen's right foot, and at that very moment, world peace is restored.
  — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Vazquez centred the ball across the box for Toni Kroos to caress the ball home in his trademark style, with the German scoring his fourth goal of the season.
  — SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Hadid was even seen caressing Tesfaye's face at one point in the evening.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2018
• Instead of feeling pain, he is calmly caressed, he is buoyed by the water and shuttled to the ocean.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The male approaches the female and caresses her with his palps.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2017
• Just looking at me, caressing my neck just holding on to me.
  — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 18 Apr. 2018
• Drawing on such techniques, Mr. Beck could weaponize his strings to hit like a stun gun or caress them to express what felt like a kiss.
  — Jim Farber, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• Cash caressed the neck of the 86-year-old Kristofferson, who embraced her in return, in one of the night’s most moving moments.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2023
• The way the toasted bread grazed and cut up the roof of my mouth, leaving me with a raw souvenir for my tongue to caress for days after the sandwich was long gone.
  — Farideh Sadeghin, Saveur, 14 Sep. 2023
• Kanter caressed and finessed his way to 24 points in 20 minutes.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• At the WellChild Awards last month, the prince was spotted caressing his wife's back in a similar manner.
  — Zoe Weiner, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2018
• The adults got grimy, two-handed caresses that left few clean faces among the front-row spectators crowded along the route.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• She was spotted caressing her prominent belly as the couple walked down the red carpet.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• In the first picture, Kardashian could be seen caressing her baby bump while looking at her reflection in a glass door.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023

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caress

2 of 2 noun

• She gave the baby's cheek a gentle caress.
• But the Day-Glo hues all caress and smack and seduce the eye.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• Part of why this is so striking is that Drake has made a career out of caress.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2022
• And remember — sláinte! May the Irish hills caress you.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• Any type of massage in this area is going to require a light caress as to not cause pain.
  — Redbook, 30 Oct. 2017
• When the river is high, the branches of the weeping willow planted in cobblestones at the tip of the square caress the surface of the Seine.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• It’s about hands and fingers – the intimacy and caress of touch.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Footage from the moment shows the rock star getting a caress to the face from a fan at the barricade; then Healy leans into her hand to suck her thumb by the time the song is over.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2023
• Humans get a flush of oxytocin in response to a tender caress or to orgasm.
  — Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
• The balmy caress of a warm fall — a shorts and t-shirt, open windows at night, drop dead gorgeous season — petered out on Monday.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2017
• Just shy of two weeks later, the 7-year-old shepherd-lab mix was excited and eager to accept the pets and caresses of strangers.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity.com, 11 May 2017
• In these dark times, an uncluttered surface anticipates the caress of the Clorox wipe.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Our farewell caress, the last physical expression of our love.
  — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• The film wants to sell us Jorge and Chris as romantic heroes, but their pickup lines and declarations of love are more cringe than caress.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Myles Brady-Davis whispered, lifting Zayn in the air before pulling her into a caress, punctuating it all with a kiss on the cheek.
  — Grace Hauck, USA Today, 21 May 2021
• But these were some of the area’s best choral professionals, and Dettra coaxed richly expressive singing that could raise the roof but also caress and comfort the ear.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• When given a choice between the caress-like chemical and one with no effect, the mice most often chose the one that stimulated the neurons.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2013
• The variations gave Wosner the opportunity to display a gorgeous cantabile tone, a fine partner to Koh’s silky caress of the theme.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• So, a lover's caress gives me pleasure, but so can a piece of music, laughing with friends, or simply sitting still in a comfy chair after a frantic day.
  — Desiree Kozlowski, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• Victor Dalmau, a young medic caring for the wounded during the Spanish Civil War, restores the beating heart of a young soldier with the caress of his fingers.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2020
• There are the beautiful, little human touches, like the two hands touching with a gentle caress or a wonderful kiss.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2021
• Words: squirt, passion, caress, schmuck, euphoric, champagne (Kenny misses it by a hair), boudoir (Iggy spells as bordeaux?), façade (butchered), etc.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 June 2017
• His two dancers, who hold hands and caress, perform opposite Ryan and a female pianist, whose romance is implied through the camera angles.
  — Dan Allen /, NBC News, 11 May 2018
• In it, two trans women alternately caress and shove each other, cooing sweet nothings one moment and cursing the next.
  — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• In its marketing of the X, Apple makes much of the beauty of a screen without bezels or buttons—in television ads, for instance, great swirls of red and purple color caress the rounded corners of the screen.
  — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
• But don't expect to feel the caress of the lunar wind, as its atmosphere is roughly equivalent to what's found near the International Space Station in orbit around the Earth.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2017
• Sometimes there’s nothing more comforting than loved one’s caress.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2016
• The same care is evident onscreen, where every fumbling and tentative caress seems heavy with meaning.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 18 May 2020
• Sometimes a text or video call is not enough, and people in Salvato’s situation often long for a way to send a loving caress or comforting squeeze from afar.
  — Richard Sima, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• Simon Godwin’s direction is tactile, obsessed with hands and the ways an open-palmed welcome, a single-finger caress, the taut-knuckled hardness of a fist can signify romance, or violence, or both.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024