ADORABLE in a Sentence

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And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADORABLE
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adorable
 a.  deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors
Classic Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
1  The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," approached her hastily.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING
2  You are adorable, Mademoiselle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
3  He gazed at the stone seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
4  When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is adorable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
5  And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
6  And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
7  Fumbling in his mind for something to say to the adorable lady, he chose the first thing that came handy; the story of the sheep's thigh.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
8  It's so adorable, with hair like red cobwebs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  As always since childhood, this was, for Scarlett, a moment for adoration of Ellen, rather than the Virgin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Her love was still a young girl's adoration for a man she could not understand, a man who possessed all the qualities she did not own but which she admired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  She prayed to Jesus, always to the Son of God, offering him the terrible power of her adoration, addressing him as the eternal lover, growing passionate, exalted, large, as she contemplated his splendor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  She wanted to be a nun and observe perpetual adoration.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of the fire worshippers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
15  His attitude became one of good-humored subservience and tacit adoration.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  I just can't resist that adorable face and those amazing blue eyes!
2  He is adorable for his devotion to science.
3  They knelt in adoration of their gods.
4  John doesn't hide his adoration for the girl.
5  Jack never told Jill he adored her; he believed his love was implicit in his actions.
6  The public seemed to lionize and adored her.
7  She adored her parents and would do anything to please them.
8  All the girls in our school adore the handsome mathematics teacher who happens to be a bachelor.
9  He took out a photo of his son, whom he adores.
10  He adores his wife and children.
11  She has one son and she adores him.