Sample Sentences fordoting (editor-reviewed)
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She has doting parents.doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
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She dotes upon her children.dotes = demonstrates love and uncritical affection
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The men and women dressed in their hats and fancy clothes smiled and chuckled at what must have looked like a doting father and two privileged children. (source)doting = adoring (demonstrating love and uncritical affection)
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Silvia gave her a doting smile. (source)doting = showing love and uncritical affection
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A minute later, Lev sits in the nurse's office, with the nurse doting on him like he's got a fever. (source)doting = demonstrating love and uncritical affection
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He went home, fell irretrievably in love with a navy captain's daughter, married her, and became a doting father to two little girls. (source)
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But at least Arobynn had an excuse for being equal parts tyrannical and doting.† (source)
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As cultural ecologist Paul Shepard has observed, "The nomadic Bedouin does not dote on scenery, paint landscapes, or compile a nonutilitarian natural history…." (source)dote = demonstrated love and uncritical affection
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Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; (source)
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Women in cells at the other end tell Malachy he's gorgeous and the twins are dotes.† (source)
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I'll set him up in a shop; or order my portrait of him, you know; or speak to my cousin, the Bishop and I'll doter Becky, and we'll have a wedding, Briggs, and you shall make the breakfast, and be a bridesmaid.† (source)
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Indeed thou dotest and art not fit to govern a flock of sheep!† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou dotest" in older English, today we say "You dote."
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if in black my lady's brows be deck'd, It mourns that painting and usurping hair Should ravish doters with a false aspect; And therefore is she born to make black fair.† (source)
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The Moon shines fair; you may away by night: I'll in and haste the writer, and withal Break with your wives of your departure hence: I am afraid my daughter will run mad, So much she doteth on her Mortimer.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She doteth" in older English, today we say "She dotes."
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It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.† (source)
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But who could control Jaimito, only son of his doting mother, unquestioned boss of his five sisters!† (source)
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