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.