Sample Sentences for
fawn
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fawn as in:  fawned all over her

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    How the court ladies must fawn over you!  (source)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.†  (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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    "It's not that," said he, "but she charged him, in the presence of her intended husband, with being disappointed in the hope of fawning upon her for his own advancement, and, if he were to go to her now, it would look true—even to him—and even to her."  (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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