DUTIFUL in a Sentence

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301 example sentences for DUTIFUL, such as:
1. Please listen while I define your duties.
2. Policemen on special duties may carry arms.
3. The duties of the post are difficult to define.
4. My household duties were not particularly onerous.
5. The prince is no longer able to perform his duties.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DUTIFUL
dutiful
 a.  careful to fulfill obligations; expressing or filled with sense of obligation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is thus," said Prince John, "that we set the dutiful example of loyalty to the Queen of Love and Beauty, and are ourselves her guide to the throne which she must this day occupy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  If he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  "I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir," was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
5  Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Close to him, dressed in entirely new clothes, advanced smilingly Count Andrea Cavalcanti, the dutiful son, whom we also know.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
7  Neither was I surprised when, on the very next day, Uriah, like a dutiful son, brought his worthy mother to take possession.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
8  The folding chairs were filled with people who looked washed and ironed: parents of the pupils, girl students, dutiful teachers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
10  She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  But the consideration of these points, and the well balancing of what you may esteem your duties, I leave to you; my judgment and ideas are already disturbed by the near approach of death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  The days of the dutiful wife, who sacrifices her career for her husband, are over.
2  She continued to play out her role of dutiful daughter.
3  When Mother told Billy to kiss Great-Aunt Hattie, the boy obediently gave the old woman a dutiful peck on her cheek.
4  Although in poor health, she continued to carry out her duties.
5  To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up.
6  Policemen on special duties may carry arms.
7  A citizen must not be relieved from fulfilling the fundamental duties of citizens.
8  The duties of the post are difficult to define.
9  Please listen while I define your duties.
10  The head teacher's deputy assists with many of his duties.
11  A priest's pastoral duties include helping the poor and sick.
12  The most important point of departure, however, is that rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties.
13  The soldier was reported to his superior officer for failing in his duties.
14  My household duties were not particularly onerous.
15  The prince is no longer able to perform his duties.