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Example sentences for: affectionate

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Maybe too affectionate.
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.
You would, however, receive an affectionate reception if you were a domestic animal--sorry again, the term preferred by animal lovers is "date."
Today, Chicanos continue to refer to Califas, when speaking of California, in an affectionate and proprietary manner.
Critics are slightly irritated by the film's tendency toward sitcom jokes and timing but nevertheless embrace the "affectionate humor" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) Jenkins shows toward her characters.