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Example sentences for "doating"

Lexicographically close words:
doand; doant; doat; doate; doated; doats; dobe; doblas; doble; dobra
  1. He was at that time young, and the only child of a doating mother.

  2. He was a scoffer at religion, too, an unkind brother, and an undutiful son to the doating father, who yet believed and saw no faults in his offspring.

  3. He dwelt upon it and talked about it with a doating eagerness bordering on insanity.

  4. Batten and Mr. Wood, and that doating fool Sir J.

  5. Besides, I was a little too bold with her about her doating on Dr.

  6. But I cannot break my mother's heart, Montraville; I must not bring the grey hairs of my doating grand-father with sorrow to the grave, or make my beloved father perhaps curse the hour that gave me birth.

  7. Why does not my child come to welcome her doating parent?

  8. It had been meant for his own father doating over the memory of another son.

  9. I did not do it, for I saved him out of the sea, and he died in my arms, as you might say, doating on the memory of another son.

  10. Yet rather than disclose my doating fate, I'll wound my heart by counterfeiting hate.

  11. She had also another blessing not always commanded by the most devoted love; many sons there are who think it essential to manliness that they should treat their mother's doating anxiety with levity, or even ridicule.

  12. Never was infant so caressed by a doating mother; never one whose little lamp of life needed such careful watching lest it should be extinguished.

  13. Worshipped by doating parents for her beauty, of which little now remained, she received from them a showy, superficial education, which she was taught from childhood to consider valuable only as a stepping-stone to an establishment in life.

  14. Friar Laurence had often chided Romeo for his extravagant doating on Rosaline, and his unrestrained grief because she would not listen to him.

  15. In the meanwhile, King Oberon began to pity his beautiful Queen, for he could not bear to see her doating on such a hideous monster.

  16. I am sorry to say, however, that this little woman rather bullied her doating husband.

  17. She was only too well-disposed to smile at the infatuation of the doating father.

  18. Were there a hell, as doating age would have, To fright from lawless courses heedless youth: For such a short-liv'd happiness as that I would be lost unto eternity.

  19. What devil has betray'd us to a doating fool?

  20. Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doating parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.