How to Use adore in a Sentence

adore

verb
  • They adored shopping in all the boutiques.
  • He's a good doctor. All his patients adore him.
  • So those who tune in for the risk-takers will adore it.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And there’s not a big overlap in the Venn diagram of stuff that my kids and I both adore.
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Kids will adore the separate pool with a white sand play area, bringing the beach to the hotel.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 29 Apr. 2023
  • That might be a bummer to those who adored the well-over-the-top 1989 action flick starring Patrick Swayze.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Pasta lovers will adore our Creamy Kale and Pasta Bake.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But the real pleasure, for Nimmo, at least, was time with an adult who adored him, who had time for him.
    Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Affleck and Lopez are as adoring of each other in words, too.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • The 29-year-old forward, one of the best strikers in soccer, is adored in her home nation of Australia.
    Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Our testers loved how easy these lashes were to apply and adored their lightweight feel while they were worn.
    Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The beloved and scraggly tree is receiving quite the sendoff from adoring fans.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Now, the actors can meet their adoring fans and chat with them over social media.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But riffs were just as adored, like this not-your-nonna’s-lasagna where cottage cheese (gasp!) is used as the tangy swap for ricotta.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2023
  • From the stands, adoring spectators throw money down to him.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • To help the next generation of fans fall in love with the genre that all of these developers adore so much.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Staff at the nursing home adore Scout, but the residents are especially pleased to have a pup around.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • These were relationships with men who, on the one hand, adored me for my strengths and ambition.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Though the show has been adored by fans for the last three seasons, co-creator Mindy Kaling has always known that the series would end by season 4.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Everybody on the crew and his design team and Mink Stole and all these people that he’s worked with all through his career adore him.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Celebrities tend to attract two groups of people: fans who adore them, and critics who live to attack them.
    Christopher Morse, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Surround yourself with friends and family who love and adore you.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the cost of cut flowers (in terms of toll on climate and human labor), Kelleher adores them.
    Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • One epic point even led to impressed claps from Sabalenka, as Gauff egged on the adoring crowd for bigger cheers.
    Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Henson plays Shug Avery, a sultry blues singer with a heart of gold who is adored by men and envied by most women.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Guests adore the fresh seafood (seacat, barracuda, mahi mahi, tuna), local fruits, rum sours, and the scenery.
    Dwight Brown, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • For those who adore running, Adidas has great no-show socks with arch compression.
    Noemie Gokhool, womenshealthmag.com, 11 May 2023
  • The Shift, from perennial Men’s Health favorite Burrow, has a low-key elegance that your beloved friends, in-laws, and pets will adore.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 19 July 2023
  • My dad never got to sing those songs in front of an audience that big, at Coachella, of people who adore him and his sound and his message.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In a bid to prove that the people of the Philippines still adored him and Imelda, Ferdinand announced a snap election in February 1986.
    Time, 27 July 2023

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