Sample Sentences for
fawn
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(editor-reviewed)

fawn as in:  fawned all over her

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    Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?  (source)
    fawn = show excessive affection
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    I removed the habit, and there shone forth beneath a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her, she dared hardly touch them lest they should fawn upon her splendid garments.  (source)
    fawn = jump on (show excessive affection)
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    Khanum Taheri's chaperoning made our meetings, if not gossip-proof, then less gossip-worthy, even if her borderline fawning on me clearly embarrassed Soraya.  (source)
    fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection
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    I find myself pleased when slum people bow and scrape and fawn over me.  (source)
    fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
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    I bet Krum can see right through him, though…. bet he gets people fawning over him all the time…  (source)
    fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection
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    The does were heavy-bellied with their fawns and assessed him with their great tilted ears before the buck moved them off again.†  (source)
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    She was tired of being pawed at and fawned over.†  (source)
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    When Cynthia's brother Ric visited, he found Louie encircled by fawners and hangers-on, all trying to exploit him.†  (source)
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    And, as Hans Castorp happened to notice one day, this fellow's eyes were staring in the same direction as his own; like his own, they were fixed fondly—and shyly and insistently, if not to say fawningly—on Madame Chauchat's supple body.†  (source)
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    When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She fawneth" in older English, today we say "She fawns."
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    Edmund Quincy spoke bitterly of the "ineffable meanness of the lion turned spaniel in his fawnings on the masters whose hands he was licking for the sake of the dirty puddings they might have to toss to him."†  (source)
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    She would go and fawn upon him slavelike—for this would have to be her attitude, of course—and maybe she would find that time had modified him, and that he would be glad to see his long-forgotten old nurse and treat her gently.  (source)
    fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
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    Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!  (source)
    fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    As she broke around a stand of reeds, a whitetail doe with last spring's fawn stood lapping water.  (source)
    fawn = young deer
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    Suddenly on the path ahead appeared some white deer, a hind and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark.  (source)
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    Slowly, as though she might spring like a startled fawn, he walked over and studied it in her hand.  (source)
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    Many times she'd seen marsh waters swallow yesterday's story: deer prints by a creek or bobcat tracks near a dead fawn, vanished.  (source)
    fawn = young deer
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    But as he got into his boat, he said, "Kya, when you see me out in the marsh, please don't hide in the grass like a spotted fawn."  (source)
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