Example sentences for: endearment

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

  • Honey fits here into an endearment classification, perhaps also used more in North America, where the British equivalent is darling.

  • The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.

  • ' There is much previously unrecorded material: button up `cease betting, or lower one's stakes considerably when one is winning'; kipping `masturbating'; sappho term of endearment used between lesbians, hence derisively addressed to passive homosexuals.

  • Among the several types of doubles in English, a rather large group ends both parts with the diminutive suffix - y or - ie . The group seems also to contain two similar sub-groups that produce opposite effects: those that diminish size and express endearment or amusement and those that diminish stature or worth and express disapproval or contempt.

  • Pop, have you seen my toothbrush does not have the same endearment to it somehow, possibly because of its use as a term of address for father or an old man.


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