I was cushioning myself for a soft blow, but I got something else.

I felt a soft blow in the heart.

Indeed, it was only after a soft blow had jarred his free-floating observatory that he looked up in sudden awareness from the interferometer.

As he squirted the water out, the shot hit him in the stomach, a soft sweet blow.

Her skirts cushioned the soft blow to her bottom.

Rubber mallets are used when a softer blow is called for than that delivered by a metal hammer.

There was a blow, soft but heavy, and the door shuddered.

One step more, knees buckling, and the wall struck him a second, softer blow.

A worker, using repeated, relatively soft glancing blows, smooths the metal toward the curvature of the stake.

She felt each word as a soft blow to her chest.