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• I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.2008, Peter Hall, Do You Want to Go to Jail Today?, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry bare knuckle
• “This flesh, almost a cream cheesy richness, a beckoning softness incarnate.”[2007], Jill Kargman, Momzillas, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry cream cheesy
• Nay, she must be stedfast, even though false security had betrayed her hidden softness.1935, Charles Caldwell Dobie, San Francisco Tales, Digitized Reprint edition (Fiction), D. Appleton-Century, published 2007, page 190. From the entry stedfast
• First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 270. From the entry preadolescence
• The softness of this pointelle knit is enhanced by the subtle stripe and floral effect knitted into the fabric.2011, Gail Baugh, The Fashion Designer's Textile Directory. From the entry pointelle
• “This flesh, almost a cream-cheesy richness, a beckoning softness incarnate.”2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry cream-cheesy
• She was no typical Edwardian beauty, all pink marshmallow softness and swooning femininity; neither was she fluffily pretty or pert.2005, Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry fluffily
• The value of a fleece is determined by fibre diametre, lustre, softness, freedom or near freedom from kemps, and clean yield.1995, O. J. Petrie, Harvesting of Textile Animal Fibres, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry diametre
• Ann: black-haired and wenchish in her bosomy softness, but compact and clean as a spring spouting from sand.1994, Janice Daugharty, Going Through the Change, page 32. From the entry wenchish
• Duffy also manages to completely avoid sentimentality, maybe because the world in which her characters live doesn't allow much softness.1985 February 2, Andrea Freud Loewenstein, “Lust, Guilt and Authentic Lesbian Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 11. From the entry hard-edged
• What was their languid grace but the softness of chambering?1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry chambering
• They give a pillowy softness to sofas.1910 February 9, “You Need Not Take an Ocean Voyage in Order to Utilize These Steamer Rugs”, in The Sun, volume LXXVII, number 162, New…. From the entry buckwheaty
• She focused her entire mind on that moment she had shared with Shan, the softness of her mams, the wetness of her lips.2022, Craig W. Stanfill, The Prophecy of the Heron. From the entry mam
• It’s made of organic cotton and bamboo, complete with fleece around the legs for durability and softness, as well as a soft waterproof outer.2010 September 28, “Potty Training: Cloth Trainers”, in New & Green Baby Co., archived from the original on 01 Apr 2024. From the entry birth-to-potty diaper
• Whether it is a fluffy bunny, a silky guinea pig or a downy hamster, we just love to hold it and feel its softness.2004 May 14, Anne Flood, “10. Cuddly Friends”, in Realistic Pet Portraits in Colored Pencil, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry fluffy bunny
• Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147. From the entry armature
• I had had my beardal hair eradicated so that I could glory in a countenance of an infantile softness and an exquisite glabrity.1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 4. From the entry glabrity
• Day after day succeeds of most delicious, dreamy softness; not enervating like the heats of summer, but exhilarating to soul and body.1901, Albert Matthews, The Term Indian Summer, page 34. From the entry heats
• So I was taught all the usual girl things then current, encouraged to play unroughly, given dolls, pretty clothes, advised on softness and sweetness, I must conclude.2013, Tanith Lee, Cruel Pink. From the entry unroughly
• In the assignment above, I spoke of “the essence of flowers.” If you overdefine and explain every petal, you will lose the sense of softness and mystery.2001, Charles Reid, Painting Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid. From the entry overdefine
• He loved these breasts of hers, these assertive softnesses that seemed the signature of an immeasurate tenderness hidden behind the world but expressing itself here in full.1998, Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry immeasurate
• During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color. From the entry pill
• The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach.1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, page 66. From the entry sandward
• No pen could do them justice; and, among painters, only the brush of a Corot could attempt their depicture without depriving them of their exquisite, their almost evanescent, softness.1914, Arnold Haultain, chapter 8, in Of Walks and Walking Tours, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31. From the entry depicture

Meaning of softness

1. noun The quality of being soft.

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Questions about softness in a sentence

How do you use softness in a sentence?

Softness is used as a noun. For example: “I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.”

What is a short sentence with softness?

“They give a pillowy softness to sofas.”

What does softness mean?

Softness means the quality of being soft.