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Example sentences for: motherly

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

An Oedipal permutation of this theory blames his affairs specifically on an early deficit of motherly attention and notes that many of his alleged lovers bear a resemblance to Virginia.
The motherly guard who took him to the camps.
, niveous/ snowy, lutaceous/muddy ), or in connotation ( maternal/motherly ). [This matter is discussed at some length in the Introduction to my Oxford Thesaurus .]
Saramago's women tend to be motherly souls who either sweetly have sex with the men or else show them how to settle down.)