Example sentences for: endearing

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

  • (Brinkley's oeuvre demonstrates his genius for endearing himself to all kinds of people: He has done books with the widow of Dean Acheson, the ultimate establishment figure; with Hunter S. Thompson; and with Carter.)

  • (Not that there is anything wrong with eating and sleeping--I would like to spend my own life that way--just don't call it endearing.)

  • The jokes in Phantom Menace are broad and childish in a way that may displease sophisticates but will be endearing to everyone else."

  • Then it came into general use, as it still is, for a beloved person, in particular a sweetheart, but also as a term of endearing address to a casual acquaintance, as the lady Lord Mayor of the northern city.

  • The enthusiastic and scholarly wish to preserve the entirety of a given writer's work is understandable and even endearing to a point, but one of the frustrations of this collection is its repetitiveness.


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