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How to use lovable in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective

Lovable means inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute. Example: “She is impatient. She is mercurial. She is feisty. All that said, she is still lovable.”

Examples of lovable by meaning

adjectiveInspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.

  • And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC...
  • In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC
  • At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky.2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel

More sentences with lovable

  • She is impatient. She is mercurial. She is feisty. All that said, she is still lovable.From the entry all that said
  • Staffords are a loyal and lovable breed that are great with children.2016 October 6, Clare Damodaran, “Staffords are a loyal and lovable breed that are great with children. Digger had a great time on the…. From the entry Stafford
  • The lovable dope admitted stealing glimpses of her as she rounded the table shooting.2013, Billy-John, Cougar Shame. From the entry cherriest
  • It’s helped by a pair of delightful womantic leads, each lovable in their own way.2012 August 30, “Review: For a Good Time, Call…”, in Crave Online. From the entry womantic
  • Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.2003 July 28, James Poniewozik, “Body Shop”, in TIME, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2012. From the entry get under someone's skin
  • Lucy is more lovable than Lucilla, don't you think?" "Lucilla is a charming name," said Richard.1966, L. P. Hartley, The Betrayal, H. Hamilton, page 54. From the entry Lucilla
  • A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world.1955, John A. Saylor, M.D., Time: The Offended Bulldog, page 8. From the entry mule-stubborn
  • The viand itself is the exasperating yet lovable humanness of humanity.1915, Life. From the entry antiquedom
  • However, when Buster's character was still being developed, he was indeed a much shadier and less lovable character.2022 September 13, Chris Hodges, “The Untold Truth Of The Sing Franchise”, in Looper. From the entry shady
  • The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Times. From the entry middle age
  • And the sparrows are even more lovable—just as, believe it or not, they are even more costlily destructive—than squirrels.1975, Tribune, page 12, column 1. From the entry costlily
  • They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk.1974, Edgar Berman, The politician primeval: from the amoeba to the White House. From the entry pit adder
  • Marguerite Blakeney was, above all, a woman, with all a woman’s fascinating foibles, all a woman’s most lovable sins.1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March…. From the entry foible
  • But she was also the kind of pop star it was fun to poke fun at, talented but artistically lightweight, adorable but not exactly lovable.2019 May 23, Jay Cridlin, “She wants it, she’s got it”, in Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12W. From the entry Doughnutgate
  • He found Japan to be a crimeless, almost Utopian society — a “fairyland” populated with “the most lovable people in the universe,” as he wrote.2007 February 20, Martin Fackler, “Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan’s Folk Tales”, in New York Times. From the entry crimeless
  • JD went from being a little emotionally needy to a whiny man-child and Elliot became every negative stereotype about women instead of her usual neurotic but lovable self.2009 June 7, tmc1982 [username], “Seasonal Rot – Television Tropes & Idioms”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet). From the entry flanderization
  • They’re not worth $4, but Andrews, launching the film with a Mary Poppinsesque “Polly-Wolly-Doodle” production number, is lovable, level-headed and downright cute, especially when tranquilized for the Great Unveiling.1981 July 10, Fred Herman, “‘S.O.B.,’ ‘Muppet’ — Adult comedy and a comedy for adults”, in The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Calif., page C-3. From the entry Mary Poppinsesque
  • He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.1901, Miles Franklin, “Aunt Helen’s Recipe”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 70. From the entry estimably
  • One older woman commented: "If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!1992, Sheila Jacobs, The big fall: living with hair loss, page 146. From the entry alopecian

Meaning of lovable

  1. adjective Inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.

Full definition of lovable

Questions about lovable in a sentence

How do you use lovable in a sentence?
Lovable is used as an adjective. For example: “She is impatient. She is mercurial. She is feisty. All that said, she is still lovable.”
What is a short sentence with lovable?
“And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.”
What does lovable mean?
Lovable means inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovable (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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