Sentence for affection | Use affection in a sentence

Sentences for affection. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use affection in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for affection.

  • Captain Wentworth jealous of her affection! (4)
  • His affection was all her own. (4)
  • Nothing but half-ironical affection. (8)
  • She had an affection for the crowd. (10)
  • Some affection for him also was felt. (10)
  • And had he a very great affection for you? (8)
  • They both kissed Alice with sisterly affection. (9)
  • Hard men have sometimes a warm affection for dogs. (10)
  • How long since he had thought of that first affection. (8)
  • There is not a chance of her affection being returned. (4)
  • She still cherished a very tender affection for Bingley. (4)
  • Then you believe in my affection, and you hurl it away. (10)
  • It would be the natural result of your affection for her. (4)
  • He had never met a woman so capable of inspiring affection. (8)
  • In the end the husband always gained the affection of his wife. (8)
  • With real affection, Fanny, like mine, more might be overlooked. (4)
  • She had shown him a little more affection when she told him that. (8)
  • Bending his eyes now upon Dahlia, a mist of affection grew in them. (22)
  • We should look like them, if we yielded to any outburst of affection. (9)
  • Cecil subscribed his name with the warmest affection toward his uncle. (10)
  • He has no sort of public being, except in the affection of his subjects. (9)
  • It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection. (4)
  • Your affection is more to me than my country, my title, or even my life. (18)
  • He rarely spoke of the princess; with grave affection always when he did. (10)
  • He had come from long usage to have a feeling like affection for his Squire. (8)
  • The answer depends also on the degree of affection that exists among people. (12)
  • No; only the coxcombs; but it is to these that you give your fresh affection. (10)
  • Aunt Dorothy undertook to communicate assurances of my undying affection for him. (10)
  • She gazed round on the farm, under a quick new impulse of affection for her old home. (10)
  • She gazed round on the farm, under a quick new impulse of affection for her old home. (22)
  • Aminta promised herself to show the friend a livelier affection at their next meeting. (10)
  • Self-respect refuses to continue worshipping, but the affection will not be turned aside. (10)
  • Adding or Miss Triscoe saw more, they hid it in a guise of sisterly affection for each other. (9)
  • They were, in their family affection, as lovable as that sort of selfishness can make people. (9)
  • Again Soames gave her a look which, but for the affection in it, might have been called furtive. (8)
  • He then shut the door, and, coming up to her, claimed the good wishes and affection of a sister. (4)
  • She met him with a hand that would be taken, and a voice that expressed the affection of a sister. (4)
  • By supposing such an affection, you make everybody acting unnaturally and wrong, and me most unhappy. (4)
  • With each failure something had shrivelled in him, till the very roots of his affection had dried up. (8)
  • Such an emblematic presentation of the land of his filial affection haunted him with hideous mockeries. (10)
  • And there was something in the way he said it that was more than a mere declaration of pride or of affection. (8)
  • His jealous affection, too, could not admit that she would neglect to consult him in any doubt or difficulty. (8)
  • There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. (4)
  • The closer the affection, the more watchful they were against interference by that affection. (8)
  • I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection. (4)
  • A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbade the indulgence of his affection. (4)
  • You know, Clara, and you should know me in my weakness too, I do not claim servitude, I stipulate for affection. (10)
  • It was perhaps just this uncertainty about his affection which made him seem more precious than any of the others. (8)
  • I honestly tell you my sentiments and intentions: I do not wish to work on your fears, but on your sense and affection. (4)
  • But as it was, they parted with looks on his side of grateful affection, and with some very precious sensations on hers. (4)
  • They take their breath of life from one another in signs of affection, proofs of faithfulness, incentives to admiration. (10)
  • And from day to day this paralysis grew more noticeable, and bore all the physical symptoms of an affection of the heart. (12)
  • Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent. (4)
  • On her return she forced herself to reprove George for his recklessness before she yielded fully to her motherly affection. (5)
  • The jolly butcher of Warbeach, who had a hearty affection for him, insisted upon clapping his hand, and showing him to Mrs. (22)
  • She must be used to the consideration of his being in love with her, and then a return of affection might not be very distant. (4)
  • I thought that I treated you with all the tenderness and affection that a decent regard for the feelings of others would allow. (9)
  • Or was it just some vague longing to please him by a show of affection toward his family, an unmeditated impulse of reparation? (9)
  • This skeleton in the family cupboard was a test of his affection for herself, a test of the quality of the man she had married. (8)
  • Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. (4)
  • But when the legitimate affection of a brother and sister finds them interposing, they are, as little parsonically as possible, reproved. (10)
  • While they were thus comfortably occupied, Mr. Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and fearful affection with his daughter. (4)
  • You will easily imagine therefore my Dear Marianne that I could not feel any ardent affection or very sincere Attachment for Lady Dorothea. (4)
  • I must hope, however, that time, proving him (as I firmly believe it will) to deserve you by his steady affection, will give him his reward. (4)
  • Richard alone was decently kind to Hippias; whether from opposition, or real affection, could not be said, as the young man was mysterious. (10)
  • He had an affection for Barbara, his younger sister; but to his mother, his grandmother, or his elder sister Agatha, he had never felt close. (8)
  • Emilia may have had some warning sense that admiration is only one ingredient of homage, that to make it fast and true affection must be won. (10)
  • Priscilla had come to her and, protesting affection, had openly stated, that she required time and retirement to recover her proper feelings. (10)
  • Oh, what an answer to that letter of fervid respectfulness, of innocent supplication for maternal affection, for some degree of benignant friendship! (10)
  • This had the appearance of renewed affection; consequently her parents lost much of their fear of the besieger outside, and she was removed to the city. (10)
  • It is the effort and aim of the management, too, to inculcate a spirit of good-fellowship and enduring affection, founded upon mutual respect and esteem. (21)
  • They still knew that the interest they took in their business was a trifling affair compared to their spontaneous, long-suffering affection for nautical sports. (2)
  • That Philippa still retaining her affection for her ungratefull Husband, had followed him to Scotland and generally accompanied him in his little Excursions to Sterling. (4)

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