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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:

, 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.)
The motherly guard who took him to the camps.
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.