dear

How To Use dear In A Sentence

• My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
• Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
• Searching online (thank you, dear neighbor, for not using password protection), I read about poor souls who'd paid $200, $400, and even $1,500 to have this exact problem fixed.
• At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. ' Shining Ferry
• 12: 19: "Not defending [Douay: 'revenging'] yourselves, my dearly beloved. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• Oh dear ... our gal SUZANNE has her fetus-fetishist panties in the bunchiest of bunches. I’ll take “Divorced From Reality” for $500, Alex.
• I would dearly like / love to know what he was thinking.
• How have my dear old Scotland not won a game? Times, Sunday Times
• A dear little announcerette rattled off expert intros to various gymnastic jingles, one of which featured dogs barking in the background.
• "Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."