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Example sentences for: affectionate

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Elsewhere in the world of politics and culture, George W. Bush yesterday was reported by Maureen Dowd, in an unusually affectionate mood, to have not been to see a movie in five years.
We have become quite friendly, verging on affectionate.
A sweet, pretty affectionate girl or young woman was said to be duckie.
Today, Chicanos continue to refer to Califas, when speaking of California, in an affectionate and proprietary manner.
There are quite a lot of opossums where I live (not, I hasten to say, of the possum type meriting the affectionate attention of Dame Edna Everage), and one sees them most often after they have been killed on the road by a car.