motherly

How To Use motherly In A Sentence

• She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
• She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
• Where were her motherly instincts to love and protect her young daughter? The Sun
• The painting of Mary carries motherly love
• God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
• Of course, I suppose if the baby is lucky enough to be white, and the mother is motherly enough and/or unmotherly enough to be willing to place it for adoption, it might be adopted.
• She also plays a motherly role to her nieces and nephews, since she considers them her own.
• Is she "lacking in motherly inhibitions and propriety and self-control" [p. 156]? Runaway by Alice Munro: Questions
• She sat with them for a while, chatting in a friendly and motherly way.
• Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.