"softly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The parson was hatless and coatless, his thin gray hair wafting softly in the night air.
- His long hair and beard wafted softly in the breeze, but he was unmoving, unblinking, his leathery skin and burlap-like garb appearing to meld.
- Music wafted softly through the room.
- The sounds of jazz wafted softly from a speaker somewhere.
- He drew her to him, there in the dark, and began to move with the music that wafted softly over the green.
- His neighbors on East 80th Street, who nicknamed him "the Mayor," listened for the music wafting softly from his apartment late at night.
- The prospect of ashes softly wafting into a forest or a lake as loved ones solemnly look on suggests a certain poetic denouement.
- An aging Spanish Republican plays an accordion and sings of the old country, and a Caribbean breeze softly wafts through open windows and over a pensive audience sprawled on worn sofas.
- Feathers wafted softly around bodices or sleeves.
- Dance music wafted softly from the dining room while an abbreviated, crimson-uniformed major-domo bowed so deeply that the great feathered turban he wore nearly fell from his head.
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