Sentence Examples

1. Lyra put her hand over his mouth and his eyes shot open, his expression softening when he saw her.
2. The back of my head landed on his leg, softening the blow.
3. Harold met her eyes, the steel gaze softening to silver.
4. I think my head is softening, or my brains are melting, or I am sweating from head to foot!
5. I glared at the chuckling Robert, and noticed that he was standing in direct sunlight, without a hint of shade softening his features.
6. Arthur gazed long and hard at the man, his face finally softening.
7. The looking over his letter again, in replying to it, had such a softening tendency, that it was particularly necessary to brace her up with a few decisive expressions and she was so very much concerned at the idea of making him unhappy, and thought so much of what his mother and sisters would think and say, and was so anxious that they should not fancy her ungrateful, that Emma believed if the young man had come in her way at that moment, he would have been accepted after all.
8. Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the niter, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate others softening marble for pillows and pincushions others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse to preserve them from foundering.
9. He squeezed her breast, a touch that should have had her body softening, and the excitement inside growing.
10. Her guardian diverted his attention back to her, his eyes softening.