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How to use fondle in a sentence

16 example sentences · verb, noun

Fondle means to touch or stroke lovingly. Example: “Mothers fondle their babies.”

Examples of fondle by meaning

verbTo touch or stroke lovingly.

  • Mothers fondle their babies.
  • idly fondling the cat's ears

verbTo grasp.

  • The lovers fondled each other.

nounA caress.

  • I gave the sleeping dog's ears a fondle as I walked past.

More sentences with fondle

  • In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60. From the entry buss
  • All you do around here, Troy, is eat and couch and fondle the remote control.1994, Reality Bites, spoken by Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder), Universal City, Calif.: MCA Universal Home Video, →OCLC. From the entry couch
  • He fondled her breast and ran his right hand along her entire trunk terminating at her buttocks.1991, Joe Butias, A Bachelors' Night Entertainment - Page 22. From the entry foresex
  • Am I boring you?” She glowed into love, smiled, kissed him, fondled him like a mother.1930 (date written), Dane Rudhyar, Rania: An Epic Narrative, San Francisco, Calif.: Unity Press, published spring 1973, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry mothering
  • She glowed into love, smiled, kissed him, fondled him like a mother.1930 (date written), Dane Rudhyar, Rania: An Epic Narrative, San Francisco, Calif.: Unity Press, published spring 1973, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry bewife
  • Her hands stroked him while he fondled her and both of their emotions began speeding out of control.2014 August 27, Darryl Terry, chapter 23, in A Weekend with Lana, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry come together
  • I'm not the only girl you've kissed an' fondled.2013, Winston Graham, The Grove of Eagles: A Novel of Elizabethan England, page 267. From the entry poh
  • Why else would you fondle the concept of "dangerous language"?1996, R. U. Sirius [pseudonym; Ken Goffman], St. Jude [pseudonym; Jude Milhon], How to Mutate and Take Over the World, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry maphead
  • “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry lope
  • He smiled at her, slow and suggestful, like he might be thinking about how nice it would be to fondle her hair.1995, Joe R[ichard] Lansdale, The Two-Bear Mambo, New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry suggestful
  • Every time I rugburned my knees, every time some morbidly obese man fondled me as if I were his mindless property, my distaste for the job deepened.2010, John Lindo, Collegiate Maneuvers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry rugburn
  • So here I was, fondling all sorts of fine mats, when a hoss of a woman screeched into her cell phone, rattling the lamps in the light fixture aisle.2004 December 8, Susan Reinhardt, “Facing my fear: Doing Disney with the crowds”, in Asbury Park Press, page 18. From the entry hoss

Meaning of fondle

  1. verb To touch or stroke lovingly.
  2. verb To grasp.
  3. noun A caress.

Full definition of fondle

Questions about fondle in a sentence

How do you use fondle in a sentence?
Fondle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Mothers fondle their babies.”
What is a short sentence with fondle?
“Mothers fondle their babies.”
What does fondle mean?
Fondle means to touch or stroke lovingly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fondle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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