What is a sentence for tender?

Answer 1

Meaning one:

1. Verb, meaning to submit a document. "Will you tender your resignation?"

2. Noun, meaning a submitted document, often an offer of a contract. "We open the tenders at noon."

3. Noun, meaning a paper or coin you can submit as money. "A seven-dollar bill was never legal tender."

Meaning two:

1. Adjective, meaning easy to cut and chew. "This steak is lovely, juicy and tender."

2. Adjective, meaning soft. "Her skin was smooth and tender."

3. Adjective, meaning gentle. "I'll smooth that touch with a tender kiss."

4. Adjective, meaning sentimental or empathetic. "He has a tender heart."

5. Adjective, meaning vulnerable. "We cannot calculate the effect of seeing naked people on our children's tender minds."

Meaning three:

1. Noun, meaning a small car carrying coal, which was placed behind steam engines. "The tender on this train was most unusual."

In Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3 at about line 104, Shakespeare manages to use four different variations on meaning one in two sentences: "Think yourself a baby that you have taken these tenders for true pay that are not sterling? Tender yourself more dearly or, (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase), tendering it thus you'll tender me a fool."