LOVABLE in a Sentence

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For LOVABLE, below is one of 7 sentences:
For all her spoiled and willful ways she was such a lovable child that he lacked the heart to try to curb her.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOVABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lovable
 a.  having characteristics that attract love or affection
Classic Sentence:
1  His lovable bad-tempered little brother, penniless somewhere in the West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  Her own little Beau was the best behaved and most lovable child in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
3  For all her spoiled and willful ways she was such a lovable child that he lacked the heart to try to curb her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
4  The Athlete, the Lecturer, the Scientific Discoverer was a laughable, lovable, healthy young human thing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She didn't care to be a queen of society now half so much as she did to be a lovable woman.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
6  UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
Example Sentence:
1  The modern founder of Pantheism, Benedict Spinoza, was a man of pure and saintly character, a gentle recluse from the world, lovable and blameless.