Example Sentences

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Presley recited a poem his father had written years before, words Presley’s daughter had adored.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

As a child, I had adored snow and ice.

From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2021

He was from Las Vegas, he told her, and his father had adored her father.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2021

She had adored Carver High, the nearby school designated for African Americans.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

He’d been a senior the year before, when I was a freshman, and every single person in the school had adored him.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez