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softly

(= quietly) with low volume speak softly but carry a big stick she spoke quietly to the child the radio was playing softly in a manner that is pleasing to the senses she smiled softly (= lightly) with little weight or force she kissed him lightly on the forehead used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

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Topics softly topics

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Examples softly examples

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Simple sentences

The mother laid her baby on the bed softly.
I walked softly for fear of waking the baby.
She softly stole out of the room.
In the distance I hear the sound of softly murmuring roads.
It rains softly on the town.
It rains softly on the city.
The teacher speaks softly.
Speak softly.
Tom spoke softly.
The dog barked softly.
He kissed me softly on the lips.
Tom sang softly.
Tom whistled softly.
The cricket is chirring softly.
Tom kissed Mary softly on the lips.
Tom lay on his bed and cried softly into his pillow.
With a slow movement of his hand, he pushed aside a lock of her hair. Then, tenderly and softly, he kissed her neck below the ear.
Tom cried softly.
He softly touched her.

Movie subtitles

I'll play it very softly. because I have things to tell you about, which I can't shout.
Softly now, for respect for chapel was the first thing my father taught us.
So we just sat there. She started crying softly, like the rain on the window, and we didn't say anything.
Pour it softly, pour it gently and pour it to the brim.
Sing a bit more softly.
I want to kiss you just once. softly. and sweetly on your mouth.
You have to blow softly.
Blow softly.
You Speak Very Softly.
But you will land softly.
I think our roosters would crow more softly on another roof.
Sometimes love just comes softly.
I call your name softly.
Yes, but softly.
When I dropped to the ground, I fell softly on moss, thorns shunned me as well as sharp stones.
A gentle fairy tale softly whispers in me of you. of you!
Last night you woke me and spoke very softly.
She started crying softly, like the rain on the window, and we didn't say anything.
Speaking softly.
But all the rooms are empty because the fairy tale ended Only the wind still sings softly of you.
How softly your skin shines in the moonlight.
You have to blow softly. Oh, yes, I get it. I'll do it.
You sometimes play too softly, for example.
Softly and silently, vanish away.
If you leave close the door softly.
Rub more softly.
Softly?
What shall I say when his feet enter softly, leaving the marks of his grave on my floor?
Softly.
Speak softly, he's a famous painter.
I shall do it ever so softly.

News and current affairs

Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess - and disrespect them with threats and interventions - Trichet should speak softly and let nature take its course.
Blair is much more vulnerable than he was a year ago, and he must tread softly if he does not want to lose further support.
As Theodore Roosevelt once said, negotiations may go better when you talk softly but carry a big stick.
But, as Egypt's domestic politics take their course, Israel, which has had to tread softly in its relationship with Egypt and in Sinai since January 2011, will have to behave with even greater sensitivity in the days ahead.
The hump of Hitler's bunker curved softly under the earth a football pitch or so away.
The US government, for its part, tends to speak softly when it comes to human-rights abuses in Turkey.
Everyone has secrets - that is what people realize too late when a surveillance society falls softly into place.

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