DOTING in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for DOTING, such as:
1. Melanie especially doted on him.
2. I think that the speaker might come off as unrealistic and totally doting.
3. A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to disparage them.
4. Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents.
2. I think that the speaker might come off as unrealistic and totally doting.
3. A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to disparage them.
4. Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents.
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Meanings and Examples of DOTING
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doting
a. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent
Classic Sentence:
1 Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
2 No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.
3 Well, then," said Bois-Guilbert, "I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional.
4 Every luxury that money could buy, including christening, had been lavished on you by your fond and doting parents.
5 I am not at all polite, now, to the Misses Nettingalls' young ladies, and shouldn't dote on any of them, if they were twice as many and twenty times as beautiful.
6 Melanie especially doted on him.
7 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.
Example Sentence:
1 A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to disparage them.
2 I think that the speaker might come off as unrealistic and totally doting.
3 Not only grandmothers bore you with stories about their brilliant grandchildren; grandfathers dote on the little rascals, too.