"gentle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

gentle adjetivo

gentle + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 272
gentle slope • gentle voice • gentle hand • gentle breeze • gentle touch • gentle smile • gentle man • gentle way • gentle curve • ...
adverbio + gentle
Kolokacji: 17
most gentle • surprisingly gentle • relatively gentle • deceptively gentle • fairly gentle • ...
(2) surprisingly, unexpectedly
Kolokacji: 2
1. surprisingly gentle = zadziwiająco łagodny surprisingly gentle
  • "But there's another thing that you need to hear," he said, and his voice was surprisingly gentle.
  • He put a surprisingly gentle arm around Catherine and led her aside.
  • 'I have to leave,' he said in a surprisingly gentle voice.
  • The priest took both my hands in his and the touch was surprisingly gentle.
  • Some of them had been surprisingly gentle, but not this one.
  • And then you're going up again on a surprisingly gentle rebound.
  • He smiled and laid a surprisingly gentle hand on my shoulder.
  • 'You may be right,' he said in a surprisingly gentle voice.
  • "You shouldn't remember him like this," he said, his voice surprisingly gentle and compassionate.
  • "We take care of our own," he said again, reassuring them in a surprisingly gentle voice.
2. unexpectedly gentle = nadspodziewanie łagodny unexpectedly gentle
(3) oddly, strangely, curiously
Kolokacji: 3
(4) unusually, remarkably
Kolokacji: 2
gentle + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
gentle with • gentle of • gentle in • gentle on • gentle to • ...

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