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Examples of fondness in a Sentence
my fondness for you will never fail
I have a fondness for expensive chocolate.
Recent Examples of fondness from the Web
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It was never meant to denigrate Nadal—about whom our longstanding admiration and personal fondness has never wavered.
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And, in a stark landscape of black rock and white ice, people who spend time here invariably develop a fondness for costumes.
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Yet somehow those imperfections have engendered, if not a fondness, then at least a familiarity with my own features in a way long hair never could.
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There was nothing quite like '80s fashion, with its whimsical earrings, velour tube tops, and all-neon-everything—and no pastime quite as entertaining as looking back on all of these distinct styles with fondness (and some distance).
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But the American fondness for checks and balances, for the mixed government that has so long served us well, is fast being replaced by a bipartisan fervor for unchecked presidential rule, elective monarchy in form if not in name.
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Smith models his game after others in the league, and has a particular fondness for Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook.
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Going back to its beginnings, country music has always had a fondness for songs of tragedy.
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Do industrial egg producers have a newfound fondness for their flocks?
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First Known Use of fondness
14th century
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