I stopped calling my father “Daddy” because I thought it sounded childish.
Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours.
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No one knows why; no one has a telephone in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, so John Boy sets out into a winter storm to find his daddy, having various escapades with the quirky residents of their backwoods community—a Black preacher, a pair of old-lady bootleggers, a turkey thief—along the way.—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025 Simmons doesn't recall some of those early TV moments, including telling her kids that mommy could buy anything that daddy could, too.—Anika Reed, USA Today, 9 Dec. 2025 Luckily, like other tough phases, wanting mommy or daddy to do everything is only temporary.—Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Dec. 2025 Her daughter no longer has a daddy.—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for daddy
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