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Example sentences for "loved"

Lexicographically close words:
lovable; lovableness; lovd; love; loveable; lovede; lovedst; loveing; loveinge; loveless
  1. She loved Nora, really loved her; she was always telling herself that she really loved her.

  2. I am as sure as that there is the moon above us; and now I dare to tell you so; no man ever loved a woman better than I love you.

  3. Although she did not know it, she was setting out on what was to be her last walk through the familiar places she had known so long, and loved so well.

  4. Yet--she loved her pretty frocks; only a woman could understand how hard it seemed to her to have to part from them.

  5. He said this with such a comical twist, and such a sunny smile, that she all but succumbed, she loved him for it so; she was all of a quiver, her heart seemed melting.

  6. Does all this mean that you've found out that you made a mistake when you told me that you loved me?

  7. They loved one another and were ready without hesitation to commit all sorts of follies, deeming them mere bagatelles, which on solid land they would never have condoned in themselves.

  8. They loved his natural way with them, always cordial, always outspoken, and sometimes harsh.

  9. We loved each other, and in spite of all that happened, we both had the best intentions.

  10. I always say that so far I haven't loved anything but animals.

  11. The people of the district loved Frederick both as a man and a physician.

  12. What he loved best was to be perched on a scaffolding, with shirt sleeves tucked up, among first-rate workmen.

  13. If she did not like "an adventure," she loved "a grievance.

  14. He was a kind-hearted, jolly old fellow, who loved strong punch and long whist, and cared very little how the world went on, if these enjoyments were available.

  15. She spoke of the people and the country with all the devotion of one who loved both; and if at times with more of hopefulness than he himself could feel, the sanguine forecast but lent another charm to her fascination.

  16. It promised another scene in that drama of life he loved to fashion for himself, with new scenery, new actors, and new incidents.

  17. Bill loved these things, and he fed his heart on 'em, and that's why his potry wuz so much better than anybody else's.

  18. And the tree loved the Master for His beauty and His goodness; and when He came to the forest it was full of joy, but when He came not it was sad.

  19. The ivy heard them, and she loved the oak-tree more and more.

  20. So little children everywhere loved Claus, because he gave them pretty toys, and their parents loved him because he made their little ones so happy.

  21. Ludwig, the young musician, saw with quiet despair the maiden he loved go to the altar with another.

  22. And so it was that Margaret came to be beloved of all, but he who loved her best spoke never of his love to her.

  23. Edward loved Margaret; to him she was the most beautiful, the most perfect being in the world; her very words seemed to exalt his nature.

  24. Thou art Ludwig, who didst love me, and hast come to comfort me who loved thee not!

  25. But the child did not do his grandsire's bidding; he loved the flowers and the trees, and he went each day to hear them talk.

  26. Its nearest neighbor was a tiny tree, so small it scarcely ever was noticed; yet it was a very beautiful little tree, and the vines and ferns and mosses and other humble residents of the forest loved it dearly.

  27. Nor did Eloise care for any but Herman and Ludwig, and she loved Herman.

  28. Eloise was much beloved by all the youth in the village, and there was not one who would not gladly have taken her to wife; but none loved her so much as did Herman and Ludwig.

  29. Now, for me, I am of the Douglases' mind, who always kept the fields, because they loved better to hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak.

  30. The King (who loved her not) stepped hastily to her as she entered.

  31. He loved to have his house in order--loved to look on a pretty woman too; and was somewhat strict in life withal--matrimony did all this for him.

  32. He rushed on danger because he loved it, and on difficulties because he despised them.

  33. Willie was in, ecstasies, for though as yet he liked his new mother tolerably well, he still loved Maggie better; and the thought of seeing her again made him wild with delight.

  34. She had loved her sister as devotedly as one of her nature could love, and for her death she mourned sincerely.

  35. But you didn't invite her to your party," said mischievous Bessie Lee, who loved dearly to tease Lucy Dayton.

  36. Willie I truly, unselfishly loved; and I am charitable enough to think that even you loved him, but it was through your neglect that he died, and for his death you will answer.

  37. Hopes are crushed and hearts are bleeding; Drear the fireside now, and alone; She, the best loved and the dearest, Far away to heaven hath flown.

  38. I loved to talk then not less than I do now, and in a few minutes I had told all I knew--and more, too, most likely.

  39. Once I thought I loved her (how tightly Emma held me), but she has been sick a long time, and somehow I cannot marry an invalid.

  40. But a darker day was coming; a night was approaching when a deep gloom would overshadow the homestead and the loved ones within its borders.

  41. I never knew," she whispers, brokenly, "how well I loved you until I so nearly lost you.

  42. So you will have to dance round after me all day for the future until your mission is fulfilled, and try to look as if you really loved me.

  43. Well, that is what Percival said to the girl he loved in the book I was reading yesterday," says Kit, rather cast down.

  44. In fact, he loved and he rode away, leaving her as dismally disconsolate as the original maid forlorn.

  45. And for a long time nobody knew which he loved best, the beauteous maiden or the gleaming bangles.

  46. The day is coming when "the heavens shall depart as a scroll, the elements melt with fervent heat," and this world, so loved and caressed by its votaries will be utterly consumed by the fire of divine vengeance.

  47. Behold how he loved him," exclaimed the by-standers.

  48. May he not fearlessly resign his spiritual and temporal concerns, his fondest hopes and most anxious cares, to the guidance and wisdom of him, who so loved him as to die for him?

  49. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  50. And what I loved you for was your truth and purity and courage.

  51. I wish he loved his book as well as he relishes sweet cake," sighed she, as the boy kicked up his heels and disappeared down the lane.

  52. Brave and young was he in heart, and loved right well his tossing, rolling home; and many a hard gale did he ride out in her alone, old as he was.

  53. She loved the youth, my friends, and she loved the Truth for which he dared not say that he could sacrifice himself.

  54. She talked much, as we rode along, of Kingsley and Ruskin, both of whom she loved as friends as well as authors.

  55. That boy she never loved nor trusted was grown to a dark, dangerous-looking man, and he was under their roof.

  56. I loved him in his beauty, A mother boy while here, I knew he was an angel bright Formed for another sphere.

  57. He loved her, and that she knew; and she had no thought of depreciating his choice, its excellency or its wisdom.

  58. These men are the curse an enemy has put upon me; and every creature that I ever loved she has turned into stone soon or late and left me here alone forever.

  59. Eos, her face tear-streaked, went slowly down the endless line of men, examining each one carefully and cudgeling her memory to decide which one she had loved the very most.

  60. Armed with the white magic of Feronia, his loved one, who was also a sorceress, but one who worked her charms only for the good of mankind, he had tracked Dionaea to her castle, and there slain her.

  61. Druga decided that after all, Feronia loved him alone, while with Eos there was no knowing what rivals he would have.

  62. When he arose to his feet and spoke, it was Diana herself who spoke and not the man who had loved Eos long ago.

  63. It is strange: he was the only man I ever loved who did not habitually interrupt.

  64. He felt that he was sinking into a most peculiar state of sentimentality; he began to be again filled with love, he loved every one, even Pseldonimov, even the young man on the comic paper.

  65. I loved her as a father, neither more nor less.

  66. I moved about among them, wringing my hands and weeping over them, but I loved them perhaps more than in old days when there was no suffering in their faces and when they were innocent and so lovely.

  67. His mother was the only creature in the world who loved him, and she loved him beyond everything.

  68. They loved and begot children, but I never noticed in them the impulse of that cruel sensuality which overcomes almost every man on this earth, all and each, and is the source of almost every sin of mankind on earth.

  69. But I have never, never ceased to love that earth, and perhaps on the very night I parted from it I loved it more than ever.

  70. And they saw that and let me worship them without being abashed at my adoration, for they themselves loved much.

  71. I have seen them myself, have known them and been convinced; I loved them, I suffered for them afterwards.

  72. They became acquainted with sorrow and loved sorrow; they thirsted for suffering, and said that truth could only be attained through suffering.

  73. Oh, these people did not persist in trying to make me understand them, they loved me without that, but I knew that they would never understand me, and so I hardly spoke to them about our earth.

  74. I loved the earth they had polluted even more than when it had been a paradise, if only because sorrow had come to it.

  75. What occurred in the cottage is very simple, and has no interest but for me, who loved the young people: strangers would not call it a tale.

  76. How good it was to live there, and to be loved a little by those who loved each other so much!

  77. She loved him but a year, one little year--and is all over for her?

  78. They tried to separate us; but we loved each other.

  79. It was too late to return to my village; but it is never too late to regret what one has loved and lost.

  80. She, whose existence was but a long series of sorrows, has left behind her a sweet, consoling memory, which has nothing painful for those who loved her.

  81. She loved to watch William's sleep; then he was handsome and like other children.

  82. The child bore that much-loved name of William, and a little cradle was placed close to the mother's bed.

  83. He had but one instinct: he knew his mother--he even loved her.

  84. In my eyes, it was superb; I was born there, and I loved it.

  85. He loved his father and his native land, and he was doomed to exile from both!

  86. There never was, we feel, one who so thoroughly looked through his friends, who loved them so much and yet without a shade of illusion.

  87. The Son of God," he said, "loved me and gave himself for me.

  88. When the writer of the Apocalypse breaks out at the very beginning: "Unto him that loved us and washed[34] us from our sins in his own blood .

  89. That man--Jesus Christ loved him, gave himself for him.

  90. One feels that the end of the story must be, that they both paid him and loved him all the more for taking the money.

  91. Plato loved Homer; so much the more striking is his resolve that in his "Republic" there should be no Homer.

  92. Do not our consciences tell us that, if we really loved people as Jesus does, if we understood them as sympathetically and cared as much for them, the cross would be far more intelligible to us?

  93. But I mean--don't you think she may have loved him?

  94. It is her old, loved theory, the worth and grace of a rare environment, of which she speaks, sewing in the fire-light.

  95. Oh," said Letitia, "but I have loved so many children.

  96. I never thought of it, old fellow," and my heart smote me for the second time that day, seeing how much he loved me.

  97. Whom he loved he teased, after the fashion of older men, and Dove was the chief butt of that rude fondness.

  98. Once only did he talk as if he loved his theme, and then it was solely with Letitia, who had mentioned Troublesome, out of the goodness of her heart, as I believe.

  99. How you loved Peter, the Professor, and your ugly Rugby on its hill!

  100. Dove loved Letitia as a greater woman than herself, she said, worshipped her for her wider knowledge and more fluent speech, just as she wondered at it ruefully as a girl on Sun Dial listening to Letitia's tales of dryads and their spells.

  101. In truth, he loved to have them richly armed, and made them wear engraved, gilded, and damasked armour, to the end that the care of saving it might engage them to a more obstinate defence.

  102. By it they rather manifest that they never loved them till dead: their life is nothing but trouble; their death full of love and courtesy.

  103. Ethel loved him in a way, but, as was right, she had other interests.

  104. Her brother had been long away from civilization; he had become infatuated, the girl loved him, he was honourable and in his heart he meant to marry her--that was to her the whole story.

  105. But for Hale, she would have loved Dave and now be married to him and happier than she was.

  106. He loved old people, and two kinder faces he had never seen--two gentler voices he had never heard.

  107. She had awakened that morning with the keen air of the mountains in her nostrils--the air she had breathed in when she was born, and her eyes shone happily when she saw through her window the loved blue hills along which raced the train.

  108. Time was hanging heavy on his hands that day and he loved the woods and the nooks and crannies of them where his own kind rarely made its way.

  109. All her life she had loved its song, and this was the first time she had heard it in Lonesome Cove since she had learned its name from Hale.

  110. Don Saltero loved fiddling better than anything in the world, but next to fiddling he loved talking.

  111. However, thy account has removed my surprise; I heard her praise thee the other day; now, as long as she loved thee, she always abused thee like a pickpocket.

  112. If he loved Isora, and knew her present abode, would he not have sought her?

  113. And--now, Morton, do not despise me for not having considered more, and loved you less.

  114. The more he loved pleasure and pursued self, the more cynical and bitter he became.

  115. And so I might recount to you how for hundreds of years the Church found out how early and unchristianized infidelity loved freedom of thought.

  116. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

  117. The personnel of our administrations has been superb, and of nearly all the honored servants of God who have labored in domestic and foreign departments it could be said, "Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity.

  118. We love others, we love everybody, we love our enemies, because He first loved us.

  119. He loved to contemplate "the glory that shall be revealed.

  120. And so, if he loved man, you would never think of telling him to honor his father and mother.

  121. One day an emancipation proclamation went forth, from a king who had come to believe in the unseen God who loved justice, and would overwhelm oppression and wrong.

  122. If he loved him it would be the last thing he would do.

  123. The life so loved of God, so provided for, and in such close communion with the Eternal is not, can not be the creature of the day, and this assurance stands firm in face of even death and the horrible corruption of the body.

  124. Remember that I loved you more than anything else in the whole world!

  125. He fingered the big, vulcanite handles as if he loved them and stroked the shining flanged rim of the volt meter as a mother strokes her child.

  126. But we loved each other, there was no harm in it, and, besides, what the deuce were we to do?

  127. Shades of the heroes and the prophets, who loved this nation and boasted of it and foretold its glorious fate, the hour of destiny has come, and this is the result!

  128. Oh to render plain, By help of having loved a little and mourned, That look of sovran love and sovran pain, Which He, who could not sin yet suffered, turned On him who could reject but not sustain.

  129. That the ancient things I loved would comfort you.

  130. In numerous athletic trials he was invariably the victor, and it must be admitted that he loved fighting as well as he liked playing ball or fishing.

  131. Now, if there was anything which Paul Jones loved it was to fight.

  132. Congress gave Captain Jones a vote of thanks, and, had the war continued, no doubt he would have rendered more brilliant service for the country he loved so well, but before he could be given a fitting command hostilities ceased.

  133. He devotedly loved his adopted country, and, when the war broke out between the colonies and Great Britain, and the long, hard struggle for independence began, he was among the very first to offer his services on the side of liberty.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    loved best; loved her; loved him; loved ones; loved the; loved thee; loved them; loved you