TENDER in a Sentence

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Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.

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 Meanings and Examples of TENDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tender
 a.  given to sympathy or gentleness; easily hurt; sensitive; young and vulnerable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mattie's tender gaze was on him and she marked the gesture.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The only difficulty was that by being just and truthful and tender and unselfish, one missed most of the joys of life, and certainly many beaux.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  How fragile and tender women are, he thought, the mere mention of war and harshness makes them faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  He must not think that anything but tender feelings were driving her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  But please don't forget I was an interested witness to your tender scene with him at Twelve Oaks and something tells me he hasn't changed since then.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  He looked at the slanting green eyes, wide and misty, and the tender curve of her lips and for a moment his breath stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  She saw only the same dark loving eyes, sunken and drowsy with death, the same tender mouth tiredly fighting pain for breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender hearted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
14  Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
15  Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Her expression became soft, almost tender.
2  Love is an art of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
3  My leg is still very tender where it was bruised.
4  Her voice was tender, full of pity.
5  Snow clothes, with snow and tender heart, more holy than the clouds, more hot than fire, in the cold wind to fly, burning in the dark.
6  Continue cooking until the meat is tender.
7  Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
8  My finger is tender because I cut it yesterday.
9  They might therefore be fearful of losing out if they accept a tender offer prematurely.
10  A tender feeling toward another; fondness.
11  When they are tender, strain the soup into a clean pan through a fine wire sieve.
12  Although no formal charges had been made against him, in the wake of the recent scandal the mayor felt he should tender his resignation.
13  “I want to change,” says Sharra, her new skin tender under her scales.
14  We can feel his tender heart from his singing.
15  A gentle touch or gesture of fondness, tenderness, or love.