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How to use petting in a sentence

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From kissing in the back stalls of the local picture theatre, they graduated to petting on the front seats of parked cars.
Cael was silent a moment, just petting Sam, before he slowly shifted to sit on the edge of the bed.
He takes a look towards his mother, who is fuming, but petting Jeremy on the head.
Heather was sitting on the floor across from Dan petting the family's old blood hound.
I don't pet her too much, as I've already worked out that there's only so much petting a pet can handle before it runs off again.
There is a dog who barks unless she is petted continuously, so people take turns petting her.
I felt like a little kid in a petting zoo delighting in the animal's velvet soft muzzle as it gently took corn and grain from my hand.
I enjoyed holding that kitten, petting her back and putting her softness near my cheek.
She had been petting Roy who was sleeping next to her, but when Tony sat down he took her hand in hers.
In front of the store is a mini petting zoo filled with goats, chickens and other animals the kids can meet face to face.
Sir Irwin held him down gently, soothing him with soft words and petting him.
The kitten looks glad at the attention, but seems more interested at Mierre than at the hand petting her.
I nodded and outstretched my hand, petting the muzzle of the horse, letting it get used to me before I swung myself up on its bare back.
Jesse is a boy concerned with climbing big rocks and petting fawns and galumphing through open fields.
For the children a special attraction is the petting zoo allowing them to see and touch foals, piglets, lambs and chicks.
We stayed there for about 20 minutes, talking to him and petting him, scratching him behind his ears and neck.
They neither of them moved as the outline of a young man moved in and out of focus, lovingly petting the bronze wolfhound.
Other activities include a John Deere trike and tractor farm, petting zoo, and hay bale maze.
Steve was way back in the shelter, crouching beside a cage, petting the furball inside.
I picked him up, placed him on my lap and wrapped the towel around him, murmuring sweet things to him, petting him.
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Had she not been punished and now were not all the grownups sorry for her and petting her?
And to tell the truth, it was not often he got a chance of petting his big brother's dormice.
Whatever was spoken of he would bring round to the superstitiousness of old maids, or the petting and spoiling of children.
We have been petting the children, and, like other children, these are a trifle too observant.
He had a simple and direct way with them, equally removed from both petting and authoritativeness.
He was not fond of petting, but allowed one or two honored beings to cuddle him.
Praising and petting and alluring and crying-up are half of fortune-telling.
Ellen had always had a sort of sanguinity of happiness and of the petting of Providence as well as of her friends.
While he was coaxing himself to knock on the pane, Stillman puttered about the shack, petting the dog, filling his pipe.
All ye who seek forgetting, Leave frowns and fears and fretting, Here by the sea Are fair and free To give you peace and petting.
At first suspicious and hostile, White Fang grew to like this petting.
He took to Heathcliff strangely, believing all he said, and petting him up far above Cathy, who was too mischievous and wayward for a favourite.
After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting and ought to get it.
Sadly she missed the petting and the mauling of the children.
Growl he would, from the moment the petting began till it ended.
All the new faces, and the petting, were a revelation to Zekal.
The mother hung over her, kissing her, petting her, and imploring her to speak, but the lips only moved and no sound came.
The event is geared toward children ages 8 and younger and their families and will feature music, sack races, a petting zoo, country fair games, a bake sale and more.
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