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How to use softly in a sentence

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The warm spring wind whisped softly through the budding trees and played with the tears on her cheeks.
It's lush and exotically ripe, yet still freshly laced with red fruit aromas and flavour, tempered by balmy spice and a softly seductive texture.
Her hair was piled in curls atop her head with tendrils curling down softly and resting on her shoulders.
The two rooms were softly lit and decorated in cream, beige and terracotta, with dried flowers, dark wood, bare beams and open brickwork.
Balayage recreates a sun-kissed feel to hair colour that grows out very softly and looks very natural.
We sat side by side on the lounge, the jazzy tune softly streaming through the speakers on a warm and balmy summer's night.
Her nose was pointy and straight, and her eyes were pretty and softly mascaraed, shut.
Today the city is illuminated softly from behind grey clouds wafted inland from the Irish Sea and massing menacingly to the north.
He barked his shin on a hidden stump and swore softly but continued on toward the scrap.
The color photograph is softly lit and the image's color palette ranges from a cool gray-blue to mauve to beige.
The grasses sway softly in the slightest breeze, and their dry leaves and seed heads form buff silhouettes in the winter.
At the close, he switches back to the minor, violins softly reiterating the sad opening motive like a threnody of distilled passion.
Without a word, he inclined his head and kissed said mouth softly, barely more than a brush of the lips.
Apart from these birds, however, we found nothing else but a lone Winter Wren murmuring softly in the brush.
She reached up, and his lips met hers, softly, like the petals of a rose, their touch was warm like a fire.
I take a step closer to him and fix his tie around the collar of his dress shirt, softly speaking each step as I do so.
Once I heard her mellifluous voice softly humming to the radio, I sighed a breath of relief.
The words to the song started, and I could hear Christina's mellifluous voice singing softly along with it.
Jamie smirked softly, watching the emotions flicker in Brian's wide blue eyes.
There is something quite irresistible about clouds of softly beaten cream and sugary, honey-coloured meringue.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Miss dartle softly touched her, and bent down her head to whisper, but she would not hear a word.
She had changed Naples into a diaper of jewels sparkling softly in the void.
He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to make the least noise.
She went about looking at things, curious, touching them softly as if they were sacred.
A skiff grazed the side of the dazzler softly and interrupted Joe's reveries.
Then, still softly and swiftly, he lifted the saddle from its peg and put it on its back.
I can picture you stretched in your chaise longue at Davos in the sunshine reading this and whistling softly to yourself.
The sound of a guitar strumming softly in the distance mingled with the clatter of chinaware and the babble of voices.
Speak softly, deal gently, kindly, and considerately with her in every way.
Crispin laughed softly for answer, and besought of him the tale of what had passed.
He was as brown as a berry, and walked softly, with almost a catlike tread.
The Judge in his unofficial capacity whistled softly at this Addisonian language, but Charlotte went on undisturbed.
But hark the herald of the sun, the auroral wind, softly trumpeting his approach!
You can easily overtake me on the road, for you are young, and I am ageing and go softly.
From the canebrake a nightingale was singing softly, as if the beauty of the night had subdued its plaintive song.
He threw his leg over the cantle of the saddle and stepped softly to the ground.
The Angevin, in despair, crept as softly as possible to pick them up, but his persecutors were not yet weary of the sport.
I had no need, however, to strain my ears, for chappy was incapable of speaking softly for any length of time.
The breeze from the open window was tapping the blind softly to and fro, and wafting the scent of the boronia over her face.
I did think so but forebore to say it, and I softly followed my conductress.
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