FAWNING in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for FAWNING, such as:
1. He fawns on being a scientist.
2. The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
3. A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.
4. A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
5. There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.
2. The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
3. A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.
4. A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
5. There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.
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Meanings and Examples of FAWNING
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fawning
a. attempting to win favor by flattering; flattering
Classic Sentence:
1 He received me in his usual fawning way, and pretended not to have heard of my arrival from Mr. Micawber; a pretence I took the liberty of disbelieving.
2 'You haven't need to say so much, nor half so much, nor anything at all,' observed Uriah, half defiant, and half fawning.
3 A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
4 They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them.
5 As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.
6 The sailors, mostly poor devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.
7 Scarlett thought she had never seen such elegant pants as he wore, fawn colored, shepherd's plaid, and checked.
8 She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists.
9 Uncas, you are right; the dark-hair has been here, and she has fled like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered.
10 On the face of this there was a device that shewed a dog holding a spotted fawn between his fore paws, and watching it as it lay panting upon the ground.
11 Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.
12 There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.
13 Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.
Example Sentence:
1 Shamelessly fawning over a particularly generous donor, the dean kept on referring to her as "our munificent benefactor.".
2 Helen liked to be served by people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.
3 Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
4 She was constantly surrounded by a group of fawning admirers who hoped to win some favor.
5 A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.
6 The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
7 Female deer leave their fawns in secluded spots while they forage for food.
8 He fawns on being a scientist.