SOFTNESS in a Sentence

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For SOFTNESS, below is one of 271 sentences:
She did not know that her face had changed, that reverie had brought a softness to her face which Rhett had never seen before.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOFTNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
softness
 n.  acting in a manner that is gentle and mild
 n.  poor physical condition; lack of courage; weakness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  How cool the water was, how good to lie here in softness, like a child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She did not know that her face had changed, that reverie had brought a softness to her face which Rhett had never seen before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  The touch of her hand, the moving softness of her look, thrilled a vulnerable fibre in Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
5  She curled on the couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She was weak, betrayed to a warm softness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
8  The open sympathy of the listeners stirred the spirit of the votary of music, whose voice regained its richness and volume, without losing that touching softness which proved its secret charm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  In childhood, he was remarkable for an extreme and marked sensitiveness of character, more akin to the softness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Time, however, overgrew this softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh it still lay at the core.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  The deep fervor of Tom's feelings, the softness of his voice, his tears, fell like dew on the wild, unsettled spirit of the poor woman.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  The black velvet of her locket nestled with special softness round her neck.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
14  About all her figure, and especially her head, there was a certain expression of energy, and, at the same time, of softness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
15  The sky had grown blue and bright; and with the same softness, but with the same remoteness, it met his questioning gaze.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
16  She had the slow, soft voice of a countrywoman.
17  The materials are soft and comfortable to wear.
18  Silk shirts always feel soft and light in wear.
19  Snail is a small plant - eating creature with a soft body.
20  We padded the box with soft cloth.
21  We padded the seat of the chair with camel hair to make it soft.
22  A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
23  In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you.
24  Taking the soft option won't help your career to develop.
25  Another drop of water fell with a soft plop.
26  Ecstasy is widely misrepresented as a soft drug.
27  A soft fire makes sweet malt.
28  In the background, in soft focus, we see his smiling wife.
29  This season's fashions focus on warm tones and soft lines.
30  The scene was beautifully captured in soft focus.