Sample Sentences for
doting
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  • Silvia gave her a doting smile.  (source)
    doting = showing love and uncritical affection
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl;  (source)
  • Women in cells at the other end tell Malachy he's gorgeous and the twins are dotes.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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."
  • 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)
  • 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."
  • 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)
  • But who could control Jaimito, only son of his doting mother, unquestioned boss of his five sisters!†  (source)
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