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Example sentences for "dear little"

  • My dear little Fleda, you're too wise for anything!

  • My dear little Fleda, I shock you, don't I?

  • Snow Bunting flew straight up to the piazza, and there stood a dear little girl in a warm hood and cloak, with a pail of bird-seed on her arm, and a dish of bread crumbs in her hand.

  • The answers were, in one mind, "I trust we shall do well by her, dear little thing.

  • My dear little goose, did no one ever make an innocent joke in their lives before?

  • I only wanted to get him out of my way, dear little fellow.

  • He spoke from experience, my dear little monsieur, and it was by his order that all the clocks at the Ministry, on the Naberjnaia, were stopped, my dear little friend.

  • Truly, my dear little domovoi, that day we had been very near death, but God and the Little Father watched over us.

  • Dear little monsieur, it is the secret of the night.

  • There is nothing else, no other situation, my dear little guest.

  • Dear little, flitting, pleasing sprite, The body's comrade and its guest.

  • The child knew this meant my dear little daughter as well as if it had been English.

  • But, for all that, the nun who had written to me might be the beautiful friend of my dear little wife, and she might also turn out to be a different person; I felt somewhat puzzled.

  • You plead the cause of your friend with the eloquence of an angel, but, dear little wife, you do not see the affair in its proper light.

  • I therefore went without saying anything about it to Laura, and without acquainting my dear little wife of my intentions.

  • Go and tell him, my dear little seraph, that I am ready to do what he wishes, if he will only grant me in your presence what I desire; I want to know for a certainty whether he is a man or a woman.

  • Dear little Julia, with her crisp little uniforms, her authority in the classroom, her charming deference to Aunt Sanna!

  • Why, you'd all go wild over a dear little baby!

  • Dear little thing, she was so good and patient.

  • My dear little daughter, in order that a wife may rule, she must always seem to do what her husband wishes.

  • But, my dear little girl, I am telling you to-day that which you must surely learn later, buying your experience by fatal faults and errors of conduct which will cause you bitter regrets and embarrass your whole life.

  • Dear little ignoramus, you don't know what trouble we have had to found an entail for the benefit of your eldest son.

  • I hope not: I should be very sorry to say anything that should vex my dear little Burney.

  • Dear little Burney's" name was coupled in it with that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, in a manner which seemed to imply that Sir Joshua had special reasons for desiring her approbation.

  • Good-bye, dear little house of dreams," she said.

  • I couldn't see my dear little heart-broken mother, who had been such a slave all her life, turned out of her home.

  • She worshipped little Kenneth--he was four years younger than her, and he WAS a dear little chap.

  • And meanwhile, my dear little man, till you know a great deal more about nature than Professor Owen and Professor Huxley put together, don't tell me about what cannot be, or fancy that anything is too wonderful to be true.

  • Well, but, my dear little man, you must learn to talk about such things, when you grow older, in a very different way from that.

  • And truly, my dear little folks, did you ever hear of such a pitiable case in all your lives?

  • I have long wished for such a dear little girl as you," said the old lady.

  • Why my dear little Honor, is that the color you would have me paint your future?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dear little" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear baron; dear brethren; dear child; dear colleague; dear father; dear father and mother; dear foster; dear girls; dear godmother; dear grandfather; dear grandpa; dear ladies; dear lamb; dear mamma; dear marquise; dear master; dear nephew; dear niece; dear nurse; dearest father; dearest mother; dearest sister; dearest wife; general expression; original genius; well browned