dote

How To Use dote In A Sentence

• We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories. The Sun
• In art, the lure of anecdote always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse.
• Elizabeth had doted on her, spoiled her, given her everything a little girl can want.
• The antidote is intended to protect residents from radioactive fallout from any missile attack on the nuclear station.
• He provides clear explanations of complex economic issues, using anecdotes to illustrate each point.
• Here is nobly born quartz living with a green mineral, called epidote; and they are immense friends. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
• Orange is the perfect antidote when a garden looks lacklustre. Times, Sunday Times
• If that isn't an antidote to the vicissitudes of life, then what is?
• Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
• She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie.