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How to use admiring in a sentence

27 example sentences · adjective, noun

Admiring means feeling or showing admiration. Example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.”

Examples of admiring by meaning

adjectiveFeeling or showing admiration.

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.

More sentences with admiring

  • I’m not enjoying the meal so much as admiring the atmosphere.From the entry so much as
  • Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 43. From the entry motorcycle
  • After admiring Milano’s skyline, he was hungry and tired from his flights.2020, Jack Erickson, chapter 16, in The Lonely Assassin (Milan Thriller Series; 4), RedBrick Press, →ISBN. From the entry Milano
  • If you're starving for some admiring comments, you might have to prime the pump.2012 -, Poppy Smith, Why Can't He Think More Like Me?, →ISBN. From the entry prime the pump
  • He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.2010, Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party, →ISBN. From the entry laurel
  • The hoover stopped and the man wound in the cord, admiring his handiwork.2007, Olivia Liberty, Falling, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN. From the entry hoover
  • Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.1961 June, McCall’s, volume LXXXVIII, number 9, page 47. From the entry strawberry
  • The three of us stood in the bow window and occupied ourselves in admiring the magnificent view.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry bow window
  • Barbie and Stacie went around admiring the hall.2019 November 28, Rayna Arora, Secrets in the City, Notion Press, →ISBN. From the entry lumpatious
  • Markos was admiring some gerania that his mother had asked him to move into the sunshine to catch the warmth.2014, Victoria Hislop, The Sunrise, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry gerania
  • I took another admiring look around Wayne'sliving room.2013, Marian Keyes, The Mystery of Mercy Close. From the entry yawnsome
  • I walked Jane down to the drive and watched her as she reversed, admiring her wristy gear changes.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 321. From the entry wristy
  • What do you think?” Angie gave her an admiring look.1993, Janis Flores, chapter 32, in Siren Song, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, →ISBN, page 483. From the entry Jill of all trades, mistress of none
  • A SOFAFUL OF CHERUBS throws admiring looks at Elvis.1960 October 10, “Rock-a-Bye Role for Presley”, in Life, volume 49, number 15, page 121. From the entry sofaful
  • Jia’s, has produced an admiring documentary portrait of the filmmaker, “Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,” shot a few years back when Mr.2016 May 26, Glenn Kenny, “Review: ‘Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,’ a Portrait of a Visionary Filmmaker”, in (Please provide the book…. From the entry Fenyang
  • As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish.2014, Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, Simon and Schuster, page 40. From the entry Heepish
  • Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem. From the entry Jerusalemite
  • I was just admiring your cobber.1983, Alistair Skelton, Bill’s Break, Prahan, Vic.: Champion Books, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry fair suck of the sauce bottle
  • The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders. From the entry antitea
  • Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.1915, Chronicles of the Cochrans: Being a Series of Historical Events and Narratives, in which Members of this Family Have Played a…. From the entry tomahawk
  • As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.2007, James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle. From the entry thick
  • Sat at the kitchen table admiring the fridgy magnets for about 4 hours after which time I was really hungry but did not eat another brownie that day.2000 December 6, The Commander, “Canabis^([sic]) for pain relief”, in alt.support.arthritis (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec…. From the entry fridgy
  • My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat.1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 56. From the entry suicidally
  • She thinks of Samantha Grimes, and suddenly Julie raises her fists above her head, elbows bent, and assumes a musclegirl pose, admiring herself in the cloudy silver glass.1998, Terry Hermsen, Robert Fox ·, Teaching Writing from a Writer's Point of View, page 170. From the entry musclegirl
  • 'I see you're admiring our decor,' the man said with a toothly smile, and Paresh noticed that his canines bit wolfishly into his thick mulberry lip.1997, Kalpana Swaminathan, Cryptic death and other stories. From the entry toothly
  • As we strolled along admiring the many-masted vessels, an old man, an early riser and doubtless a poor sleeper (as so many old people are) stopped us.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186. From the entry early riser

Meaning of admiring

  1. adjective Feeling or showing admiration.
  2. noun Admiration.

Full definition of admiring

Questions about admiring in a sentence

How do you use admiring in a sentence?
Admiring is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.”
What is a short sentence with admiring?
“I was just admiring your cobber.”
What does admiring mean?
Admiring means feeling or showing admiration.

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