How to use "gentle" in a sentence

He gave the door a gentle push and crept into the bedroom

Valjean gazed down at the bishop's gentle, sleeping face, and felt a kind of terror

The Thenardiers, who were loving and gentle to their own daughters, Eponine and Azelma, treated Cosette like a slave.

The next morning, while he was working, there was a gentle knock on his door.

Moments later, there was a gentle knock on the door

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

For the summer perhaps." Then she is quiet, and the three men think how polite and gentle she seems

One moment you are asleep, your dreams calm and gentle and your body warm in the blankets of your bed

And you want to tell yourself to relax, that everything is okay, and to close your eyes and return to your calm and gentle dreams.

And you do not tell yourself to relax, you do not tell yourself that everything is okay, and you do not tell yourself to return to your calm and gentle dreams.

But then Owen sees what is behind the trees: brown hair, big gentle eyes..

All they could hear were the sounds of the waves and the gentle wind in the trees

A gentle wave splashed her face

When Maxim spoke, his voice was gentle and low.

She tried to relax by closing her eyes and envisioning a gentle night tide lapping at a silvery beach.

There were no guardrails in the wilderness, no wide shoulders at the roadside with gentle slopes beyond

"Who're you?" the pituitary-challenged behemoth asked in a soft, gentle voice that didn't equate with his appearance.

'You've never done one.' Before Griselda could reply, a shadow fell across the table, and a very gentle voice said, 'Please forgive me

Haydock's gentle opinions about criminals changed immediately

There is a gentle slope towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we went

A gentle wind moved the flowers

You think he is a sweet, gentle little dog

After lunch, a gentle wind pushed us up the river past Wargrave and Shiplake

The sound of its super-smooth engine was soft and gentle, unlike the hard banging of the girl's high-heeled shoes