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Example sentences for: dutiful

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

But somehow, the section still feels dutiful.
But some critics complain the film is "more dutiful than dramatic" (Leah Rozen, People ) or just "a courtroom drama of dull, soapbox ponderousness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here for the official site.)
Usually in the pop-academic genre, the pop side will be interesting and the academic side dutiful and obscure.
Poppy was dutiful in pursuit of office, compiling the requisite experience almost mechanically, adding line after line to his résumé until America had no choice but to elect him president.
Critics praise Mamet's departure from his trademark profane and sharp-edged films, but the reviews have a dutiful air about them: "a pointed examination of the price of seeking justice" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) ...