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How to use the word gentler in a Sentence?

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The Year of Water Rabbit is going to be a gentler year. We ’ll have Lunar New Year to take a breather. We’ve been in the tunnel for the last few years, and the light is getting bigger now.

Thierry Chow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden still clings to an insane fantasy that the Taliban is kinder and gentler, it’s nonsense. Haqqani is the Taliban’s new interior minister for precisely the same reason the FBI’s got a $5 million bounty on his head: he’s a bloodthirsty terrorist. He’s armed, dangerous, and running a country we just abandoned.

Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Taliban is putting on a good show for the rest of the world because they want us to be talking about a kinder, gentler The Taliban, as soon as the cameras are gone, they are going to be The Taliban... as brutal and horrific and evil as they have always been.

Jason Kander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People who are suffering through no fault of their own, we're trying to build a gentler, kinder society. And if we all pitch in, just a little bit, we're gon na get there.

Alex Trebek

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They are all euphemisms for' they fired me' but they sound softer and gentler.

Roy Cohen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

Mickey Rooney

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

Are we a gentler people? Yes, maybe. It's almost in Canadian DNA.

Naomi Alboim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s those smaller human kindnesses that if they can be easier and gentler for the experience, why not? maybe it takes somebody who’s going through it to realize the issue, and not the health care provider watching from the outside.

Alexis Maciej

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

William Shakespeare, Henry V

added by anonymous
13 years ago

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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