admiring
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- admiringly adverb
- half-admiring adjective
- half-admiringly adverb
- self-admiring adjective
- unadmiring adjective
- unadmiringly adverb
Etymology
Origin of admiring
Example Sentences
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The pictures also show the couple admiring scans of the baby.
From Barron's
She turned her arm around, admiring the word.
From Literature
In the words of one admiring Senate colleague, he “bonded” with the party’s former leader, Robert Byrd, because both men “had known not only poverty, but desperate poverty.”
But as admiring as “Cover-Up” may be about Seymour Hersh, it is hardly a paean to American mass media.
"He had a really intense energy. He had this idea of himself. He was Timmy Supreme," the director said, admiring the actor's absolute confidence in his own talent.
From Barron's
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