The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender, succulent, and juicy.

Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.

I first had a girlfriend at the tender age of seven.

And you of tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by.

The court later expressly adopted the tender years doctrine, which states that a child is incapable of contributory negligence if he is less than seven years old[…].

tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.

Love me tender, love me sweet
Never let me go

Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.

Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."

The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.

A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the cruise ship anchors at sea). […] Gangway ramps can, on occasion, break free of either the ship or the tender, causing passengers or crew to fall into the sea.

The first of two willful violations OSHA found were the diver and dive tender "performing dredging operations in a canal with zero-visibility, did not have the experience and training in the use of tools, equipment, systems, techniques, and emergency procedures which are required to perform these underwater tasks in a safe manner."

You offer me the sword of my father, the very man whose bones, because of your perfidy, lie under the sod of Crecy. Aye, I'll surely take it, and just as surely you shall die with your tender through your heart!

Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.

We will submit our tender to you within the week.

To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].

Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.

Meantime, I'll dig up what I can, but if they start fishing again, I start tendering.

1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

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