Example Sentences

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“You’ve had nine hits this year,” she purred fawningly at the singer-songwriter Michael Bolton on one of her British TV shows.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

He’s posted about it fawningly on his Instagram page over the years.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2023

An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

At the Olympics, he fawningly supplies police officers with cans of Coke.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2019

"I mean," said the Chancellor, fawningly, "that his Excellency, the ambassador of France, hath ridden away under cloud of night, and hath taken his fair ward with him."

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank