How to Use darling in a Sentence

darling

noun

• She was mother's little darling.
• It’s come to this: the Pads are in the midst of becoming media darlings.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
• But Quan is making the most of his turn as an awards-season darling.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• Then this media darling comes in: a great player who also is just nice to look at.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
• Leon later signed the band Guster, a darling of colleges, in the late 90s as president of Hybrid Records.
  — William Earl, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• In many ways, the dragon, the griffin, and the unicorn were the three mythical darlings of medieval Europe.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The film became the darling of fans and film critics alike, taking home countless end-of-year awards for its creators and cast.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Even fintech, long the darling of VCs, hasn’t escaped unscathed.
  — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Founded in 2010 in New York, WeWork, once a darling of the start-up world, has since become a cautionary tale.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• The film, a critical darling at both the Sundance and Berlin film festivals, is in theaters now.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Other sonnet branches are scattered in the backyard, fourteen limbs decked out in the darling buds of May.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• For finishing touches, the fashion darling threw on a pair of matching white pumps along with a small pair of hoops, a ring, and a bangle bracelet.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2023
• While the women’s national team has long been one of the darlings of the US Olympic movement, the men have been fighting an uphill battle.
  — Will Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• In 2013, Cart Life, a grayscale sim about street vendors, was the definition of an indie darling.
  — WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
• Bloomfield became a media darling as well, even starring in her own half-season of Mind of a Chef.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2023
• The brand features darling dresses and separates that will add a colorful pick-me-up to your wardrobe.
  — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2023
• He’s hardly been a critics’ darling in his late career.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Long before it was called Meta, Facebook was a Wall Street darling because of its breakneck growth and big profits.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• The breakout darlings are seldom suited to take advantage of it.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps that's why Japan has become the honeymoon darling of 2023.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2023
• Over the past year, however, the unexpected note is now the darling of the beauty industry.
  — Hannah Baxter, ELLE, 6 July 2023
• All the darlings have survived, resulting in a show that has had to expand itself to accommodate them, for good and for ill.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• The Dutch payments provider, once a darling of the European tech scene, needs Silicon Valley to get its mojo back.
  — WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• Since then, she’s gone retro and futuristic; been both a Disney darling and a champion of chaps.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
• Pinot gris has been eclipsed by chardonnay as the darling white grape of Oregon’s winemakers, so kudos to Sokol Blosser for sticking with it.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The beast became a scientific darling because of a rich fossil record.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• Liverpool will likely be the public darling based on brand recognition, but take the Newcastle, draw no bet up to -145 in this spot.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
• And while those two shows are almost guaranteed to once again prove Emmy darlings, quite a few shows that bowed this spring are less likely to walk home with gold statuettes.
  — USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• In a darling display of flag dressing, Princess Charlotte wore a white sailor-style dress with red accents to the first birthday parade of her grandfather’s reign.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
• Okta is a big company, a Wall Street software as a service darling, and also just the thing a lot of us have to log into at work 50 times a week to get anything done.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024