admiring
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- admiringly adverb
- half-admiring adjective
- half-admiringly adverb
- self-admiring adjective
- unadmiring adjective
- unadmiringly adverb
Etymology
Origin of admiring
Example Sentences
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“Every single song she’s released captures specific emotions,” Sheeran says admiringly of Moroney, adding that he and his family have kept her first two albums on repeat in their house.
From Los Angeles Times
I was still standing there admiring my work when, from the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a movement in the branches of a sycamore tree.
From Literature
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Sometimes they’d watch me spin with a kind of awe, and I almost thought they were admiring me, but their eyes were only on the gold.
From Literature
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When Aston Martin's new Formula 1 car first appeared in testing at the end of January, it drew admiring glances up and down the pit lane.
From BBC
Yet Hall went close to a second equaliser after the interval, curling narrowly wide with an audacious effort that drew an admiring thumbs-up from Donnarumma.
From Barron's
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