softly Betydning & definition

Eksempler på softly

• Vocalising softly, casually, confidentially, he ' has our ear'; he is privileged as our main informant.

• She spoke softly, and claimed us all as her children.

• They argue that effective regulation is based on speaking softly but carrying a big stick at the top of a hierarchy of sanctions.

• He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked in a womb of warmth, oily by scented melting soap, softly laved.

• Whether the ship would stay afloat or softly and suddenly vanish away was in the hands of my fellow physicists.

• The nurses noted, however, that she would moan softly when they changed her dressings.

• These measurements show how the long-range forces, short-range adhesion forces, and fusion barriers are different for rigidly supported and softly supported bilayers.

• A dreamy synthesizer supplies an affirmative upward cadence in a major key, and, following another two-note upwards progression on timpani, a cymbal crescendo softly sounds.