Example Sentences

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The word “Paul” became my substitute for endearments.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Ah, Valentine’s Day … A day for cardiac-themed tokens, embossed endearments and sugary sweet love — or, in other words, conversation hearts.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

“You can even use the person’s terms of endearments in your self-compassion self-talk to marshal in the person’s presence,” Abdullah says.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2022

We don’t exchange heart-shaped boxes of chocolates or glossy cards with manufactured endearments inside, and we don’t go around kissing in public or saying “I love you” twenty times a day.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

"Why, whatever has he done to you, my sweet?" she asked, and mopped the mud from his face with her apron and called him all manner of endearments.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman