ADMIRATION in a Sentence

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1. He admired the city's wide streets.
2. She stood back and admired her handiwork.
3. When I was young, I admired clever people.
4. And I think I've taken them to admiration.
5. Everybody of us admired her slender figure.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADMIRATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
admiration
 n.  favorable judgment; feeling of pleasure, wonder, and approval
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Now, struggling against hatred for Ashley's wife, there surged a feeling of admiration and comradeship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Reluctantly, Scarlett's admiration went still higher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  For a moment, his eyes came back to her, wide and crystal gray, and there was admiration in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  His heart went out to her, torn with his own helplessness, wrenched with admiration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  I have a deep and impersonal admiration for your endurance, Scarlett, and I do not like to see your spirit crushed beneath too many millstones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  There was a faint gleam of admiration in his eyes as he answered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
10  He was not a man to whom the expression of admiration came easily: his long sallow face and distrustful eyes seemed always barricaded against the expansive emotions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
11  Mrs. Dorset had none of Judy Trenor's lavish impulses, and Dorset's admiration was not likely to express itself in financial "tips," even had Lily cared to renew her experiences in that line.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  At such moments she lost something of her natural fastidiousness, and cared less for the quality of the admiration received than for its quantity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  And I think I've taken them to admiration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  But it was in the quality of his admiration that she read his shrewd estimate of her case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
15  As they looked up she caught their suspense of admiration.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  When I was young, I admired clever people.
17  I admired the creativity which prevailed among the young writers.
18  She stood back and admired her handiwork.
19  He admired the city's wide streets.
20  I admired him as a true scientist and hard worker.
21  The worker operated the machine expertly;we admired him greatly.
22  Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
23  I admired the general who was a master of strategy.
24  The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
25  Everyone admired the delicacy of her features.
26  Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.
27  They chattered all the time about Tom's plan and admired the genius of it.
28  She admired the iridescent hues of the oil that floated on the surface of the water.
29  We greatly admired her well-bred, patrician elegance.
30  Looking in the pantry, we admired the plenitude of fruits and pickles we had preserved during the summer.