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.
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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Meanings and Examples of DUTIFUL
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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.
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.
3 If he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree.
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.
5 Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
6 Close to him, dressed in entirely new clothes, advanced smilingly Count Andrea Cavalcanti, the dutiful son, whom we also know.
7 Neither was I surprised when, on the very next day, Uriah, like a dutiful son, brought his worthy mother to take possession.
8 The folding chairs were filled with people who looked washed and ironed: parents of the pupils, girl students, dutiful teachers.
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.
10 She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
11 One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university.
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.
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.
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.
15 I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
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.