Example sentences for: dutiful

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

  • The Post fronts a biographical piece about young Al Gore, painting him as inordinately cautious, responsible, competitive, perfectionistic, dutiful.

  • 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 ) ...

  • In the New York Times Book Review Thomas Mallon faults Lidie Newton for "dutiful caricatures of white degeneracy and black nobility ...

  • On his dutiful bay He rode away, Needless to say On a beautiful day.


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