ADMIRATION in a Sentence
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280 example sentences for ADMIRATION, such as:
1. And I think I've taken them to admiration.
2. His courage and skill compel our admiration.
3. Her open admiration should not abash him at all.
4. Her handling of the crisis fills me with admiration.
5. Reluctantly, Scarlett's admiration went still higher.
2. His courage and skill compel our admiration.
3. Her open admiration should not abash him at all.
4. Her handling of the crisis fills me with admiration.
5. Reluctantly, Scarlett's admiration went still higher.
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Meanings and Examples of ADMIRATION
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admiration
n. a feeling of delighted approval and liking
n. a favorable judgment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.
2 Now, struggling against hatred for Ashley's wife, there surged a feeling of admiration and comradeship.
3 Reluctantly, Scarlett's admiration went still higher.
4 For a moment, his eyes came back to her, wide and crystal gray, and there was admiration in them.
5 His heart went out to her, torn with his own helplessness, wrenched with admiration.
6 I have a deep and impersonal admiration for your endurance, Scarlett, and I do not like to see your spirit crushed beneath too many millstones.
7 There was a faint gleam of admiration in his eyes as he answered.
8 The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
9 Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline.
10 He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
11 Mrs. Dorset had none of Judy Trenor's lavish impulses, and Dorset's admiration was not likely to express itself in financial "tips," even had Lily cared to renew her experiences in that line.
12 At such moments she lost something of her natural fastidiousness, and cared less for the quality of the admiration received than for its quantity.
13 And I think I've taken them to admiration.
14 But it was in the quality of his admiration that she read his shrewd estimate of her case.
15 As they looked up she caught their suspense of admiration.
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1 Her open admiration should not abash him at all.
2 At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up."
3 Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
4 He received years of praise and admiration from the public that he did not deserve, and now he is exposed as a fraud.
5 He felt more than simple admiration for Miss Euston; he experienced a kind of veneration for her.
6 Her handling of the crisis fills me with admiration.
7 His courage and skill compel our admiration.
8 Your cleverness and skill has compelled our admiration.
9 The young movie star revelled in the public's admiration.
10 The lads came back and went at their sports again with a will, chattering all the time about Tom's stupendous plan and admiring the genius of it.
11 I was just admiring the detail in the doll's house - even the tins of food have labels on them.
12 A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
13 Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
14 Their single-minded devotion to the care of the dying was admirable.
15 Though Jack was emotionally immature, his cognitive development was admirable; he was very advanced intellectually.