ADMIRE in a Sentence

Learn ADMIRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
280 example sentences for ADMIRE, such as:
1. He stepped back to admire the painting.
2. She's an artist whose work I really admire.
3. A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
4. If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire.
5. You have to admire the way he handled the situation.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ADMIRE
admire
 v.  feel admiration for
 v.  look at with admiration
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I admire to do it, and you'd be a regular little beauty with a touch here and there.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
2  The parrot alone was enough to drive her distracted, for he soon felt that she did not admire him, and revenged himself by being as mischievous as possible.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
3  They are wild to see the river, sketch the broken bridge, and copy some of the things they admire in my book.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
4  No, it wouldn't," returned Jo, "I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
5  Mother would admire his warm heart, Father his wise head.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  There were plenty of pretty faces to admire, but the young man took little notice of them, except to glance now and then at some blonde girl in blue.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
7  Jo wouldn't love him, but he might make her respect and admire him by doing something which should prove that a girl's 'No' had not spoiled his life.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
8  I shall miss my boy, but I shall love the man as much, and admire him more, because he means to be what I hoped he would.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
9  Never yet did such a young plant shoot out of the ground as that was, and I admired and wondered at it exactly as I now admire and wonder at yourself.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
10  Then the goddess shed grace and beauty over her that all the Achaeans might admire her.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII
11  Most gentlemen would admire her, I thought; and that he did admire her, I already seemed to have obtained proof: to remove the last shade of doubt, it remained but to see them together.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  All the men in her circle seemed to admire her and envy me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough-bass and human nature; and had some extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  Maria thought speaking out of the question, and the gentlemen did nothing but eat and admire.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  I don't agree with her, but I admire her for sticking to her principles.
2  A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
3  She's an artist whose work I really admire.
4  Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
5  They stopped at the top of the hill to admire the scenery.
6  Walk down Castle Street and admire our little jewel of a cathedral.
7  Children can be seen to copy the behaviour of others whom they admire or identify with.
8  Walk down Castle Street, admire our little jewel of a cathedral, then wonder at the castle.
9  I admire the effective use of colour in her paintings.
10  If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire.
11  He felt a glow of pride as people stopped to admire his garden.
12  He stepped back to admire the painting.
13  You have to admire the sheer vitality of his performance.
14  You have to admire the way he handled the situation.
15  She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland.