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How to use gentleness in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Gentleness means the state of being gentle. Example: “Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.”

More sentences with gentleness

  • Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.1982 December 25, “Opinion: Children at the Window”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2016. From the entry better angels
  • "You might as well set down," remarked Miss Hitty, with a new gentleness of manner.1906, Myrtle Reed, chapter 2, in A Spinner in the Sun. From the entry set a spell
  • How could so much warmth and unassuming gentleness be subtracted from the world by the simple misbeat of an organ?2011, Susan Donovan, Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man. From the entry misbeat
  • In fact the flugel, though related to the trumpet, reveals its mellow gentleness here, and the clarinet its strident edge.2010 November 15, “BBCNOW/Roth at St David’s Hall, Cardiff”, in The Times. From the entry flugel
  • Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self.1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values. From the entry selfsecure
  • Perhaps the gentleness and wisdom that come with age allow this man to teach as few are able.1993, Clayton L. N. Robinson, J.C. Boileau Grant: anatomist extraordinary, page 111. From the entry unbelittling
  • What a strange medley of superferocity and inexplicable gentleness!1916, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 189, G. Graham, page 14. From the entry superferocity
  • The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals. From the entry ungarnered
  • But through a perfect gentleness, instead.2001, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova. From the entry lowlihead
  • He was not, this hot afternoon of a fruitless day—and a day which was supposed to have been an off-duty day—Shapiro felt no gentleness.1972, Richard Lockridge, chapter 11, in Write Murder Down, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company…. From the entry hacker
  • Worse still, we’re told that gentleness is weakness, that love is just asking for grief, that generosity is fecklessness, that openness is cruisin’ for a bruisin’.1998, Molly Wolf, Hiding in Plain Sight: Sabbath Blessings, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry cruisin' for a bruisin'

Meaning of gentleness

  1. noun The state of being gentle.

Full definition of gentleness

Questions about gentleness in a sentence

How do you use gentleness in a sentence?
Gentleness is used as a noun. For example: “Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.”
What is a short sentence with gentleness?
“But through a perfect gentleness, instead.”
What does gentleness mean?
Gentleness means the state of being gentle.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gentleness (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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