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Example sentences for: admiration

How can you use “admiration” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If for nothing else, Yoritomo earns our admiration for his determination to create a “Seated Buddha” for his capital to rival the huge bronze figure made in 749 for Todaiji temple in Nara.
(Note: The actual book quotation ends with the word "admiration."
with equal parts astonished admiration and mounting horror at the calculated brazenness of it all" (Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times ). Clarissa Cruz ( Entertainment Weekly ) finds that parts of the dialogue are "laugh out loud funny," but overall it's "a frivolous read that's far more titillating than scintillating."
We are all familiar with the naming process, whether it be with the great relief at hearing the doctor say “muscular strain” instead of “rheumatoid arthritis” as he examines the x-rays, with the Sunday supplement newspaper article summing up (for the umpteenth time) the latest new words and acronyms, with nothing with amusement, admiration, or consternation what some people name their children, and with scores of other instances we encounter daily.
Perhaps the strangest mutual admiration society is that between President Bill Clinton and the famously curvy queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.