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How to use adore in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Adore means to worship. Example: “It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.”

Examples of adore by meaning

verbTo love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.

  • It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.

More sentences with adore

  • All (the) three of my nephews adore classical music.From the entry all
  • Robbie adores it when Heather puts tabasco on food.From the entry tabasco
  • I adore her in Easter Parade and Meet Me in St.2020 October, Alley Pascoe, “Megan Washington's Love Letter To RuPaul”, in Marie Claire. From the entry weapon
  • Parents may adore those forms in children because they are cute.2018, Ralf Thiede, Children's Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition, Taylor & Francis. From the entry Amelia Bedelia
  • And I lost my textbook over summer vacation! so why do they adore school so much?2017 [2011], Wataru Watari, translated by Jennifer Ward, My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected, volume 3, Yen Press, →ISBN. From the entry normiedom
  • My friend Cindy's husband, Michael Zahavi, a true chocoholic if there ever was one, adores this tart.2016, Daphna Rabinovitch, “Fudge Truffle Tart”, in The Baker in Me, Vancouver, B.C.: Whitecap Books, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry a
  • They adored diagnosis, many suffered from spanophilia and most had little interest in time-consuming treatments.2016, Hsin Fen Chien, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Movement Disorders Rehabilitation, →ISBN. From the entry spanophilia
  • Miss Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think she was an ‘actress manquée’.2013, June Brown, chapter 14, in Before the Year Dot, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry manquée
  • He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age.2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball. From the entry scarily
  • Showy peacocks attract more predators, but they outbreed drabber rivals just because peahens adore flashy tails.2009 February 22, Lynn Phillips, “Survival of the Hippest”, in New York Times. From the entry outbreed
  • A genre once adored by viewers lies dead, but not forgotten, in television's Boot Hill.2008 May 23, Gail Pennington, “'60s upheaval shot down Westerns”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, retrieved 08 Jun 2008. From the entry Boot Hill
  • “Although she knows I adore her,” he added, giving me a boyfriend-ish squeeze.2008, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince. From the entry boyfriend-ish
  • Not only am I not a NatPacker, but I adore Janette.1999 September 29, Shomeret, “Ramblings of a bored person”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Jan 2026. From the entry NatPacker
  • They do something to me, chocolate crackles, mainly put weight on but I adore them.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 115. From the entry chocolate crackle
  • Rasmus, of course, likes it because it can be English and all things English he adores.1993, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell). Asta's Book →ISBN, page 105. From the entry Marie
  • Hope Leezum, invincibly hairbowed by now, pigtails at a defiant angle, adores the company.1980, Hope Cooke, Time Change: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry hairbowed
  • I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part…. From the entry duenna
  • She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him—and he adores it.1919 June, Renee Van Dyke, “Interesting Paragraphs about the Players”, in Geo[rge] M. Downs, Jr., editor, The Photo-play World, volume 2…. From the entry vamp
  • Emily adores Paris and Instagrams the city at every turn.2025, Julien Thèves, "Vous aimez 'Emily in Paris,' vous aimerez la capitale française", translated and quoted by Thérèse Migraine-George…. From the entry Instagram
  • My in-laws had a hammock that my older son adored.2024, Sarah Asermily, “A Blue Bird Day”, in Amy Newmark, editor, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven, Cos…. From the entry grandpie
  • And we still adore the Big Chonky front pawb controller.2023 December 21, nautilee, s-q, “It ain't cheatin'”, in Fur Affinity, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024. From the entry aptophilia
  • He adored them, he collected them and he even had a shop in London’s Covent Garden selling them.2018 June 8 [2018 March 31], “Actor Peter Baldwin's toy theatres up for auction”, in SussexWorld, Iconic Media Group. From the entry juvenalia
  • Raise your hand if you adore germs.2015, S. Thomas Valentine, Questions of the Soul: Sermons from the 2014 Festival of Young Preachers, Chalice Press, →ISBN. From the entry raise one's hand
  • I adore Kelly and Michael Strahan is the bomb diggity.2014, Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers, Everybody's Got Something. From the entry the bomb diggity
  • Nevertheless, Maynard has his Mayniacs - in fact I'm a self-proclaimed one - that will adore this single.2013, Megan Downing, R U Crazy review, The Edge (University of Southampton), Issue 1, September 2013, page 8. From the entry Mayniac
  • Tears poured forth by lovers at His adored feet, Are pearls ; though we're used them as tears to misgreet.2013 (1881), James W. Redhouse, The Mesnevi of Mevlana (Our Lord) Jelalu-'D-Din, Muhammed, Er-Rumi. From the entry misgreet
  • Traditionalists will adore the Lanesborough on Hyde Park Corner, with its stately decor, toasted teacakes and clotted cream-laden scones.2012 May 29, Time Out Guides Ltd, Time Out London Top 100, Random House, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry teacake
  • Hillary adored James, had no doubt about his allegiance or discretion—although she hadn't looped him in until now.2010 January 11, Read Excerpt: Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, ABC News (retrieved 24 April 2013). From the entry loop in
  • But true caseophiles adore a washed rind, and the French, of course, are masters at producing these pungent beauties.2008, Steve Ehlers, Jeanette Hurt, “Part 2: Old World Favorites”, “Chapter 5: French Cheeses”, in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cheeses of…. From the entry caseophile
  • I adore casting a fly down a perfect piece of water provided the slightest chance of a fish exists.2004, Neon Reynolds, Occasional Salmon, page 202. From the entry fishlessness
  • She liked Arschlochweh and adored Improvisation; but the Anatomiestunde and the bending and stretching she did not like.1993, Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, Edith Fournier, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry pfui
  • I adore this fabric—so fluid, so graceful.'1990, Catherine George, Come Back to Me, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry thirties
  • Who would not adore Mom and admire old Ma Pettigrew?1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 4, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 50. From the entry mayhap
  • To ride; to dance; she had adored all that.1923, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street. From the entry priggish
  • What the fans do not realize is that tinhatting happens to hurt and harm the very same people that they so adore.2022 August, Shweta Basu, “The Xiao Zhan Controversy and the Case of Misplaced Fan Activism”, in The Phoenix Papers, volume 5, number 1…. From the entry tinhatting
  • She adored him and never said an unkind word about him, although she said he hit the sauce every now and again.2012, Analiese Douchay, The Flight of the Wood Nymphe, →ISBN. From the entry hit the sauce
  • As a junior at Lawndale High School, Daria isn't popular (unlike the shallow Quinn, whom others adore), but she actually prefers not to be popular.2011, David Mansour, From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century. From the entry Quinn
  • Tom adored to give pleasure while Gore has always liked to boast that he has never knowingly or intentionally gratified any of his partners.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 153. From the entry reach-around
  • I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost.2010, Simon Winchester, “Speciality of the House”, in A Moveable Feast, Lonely Planet, published 2010, page 191. From the entry caninophile

Meaning of adore

  1. verb To worship.
  2. verb To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
  3. verb To be very fond of.

Full definition of adore

Questions about adore in a sentence

How do you use adore in a sentence?
Adore is used as a verb. For example: “It is obvious to everyone that Gerry adores Heather.”
What is a short sentence with adore?
“I adore this fabric—so fluid, so graceful.'”
What does adore mean?
Adore means to worship.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adore (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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