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Example sentences for "doted"

Lexicographically close words:
dotage; dotal; dotard; dotards; dote; dotes; doth; dothe; doti; doting
  1. Therefore now I'll love no more As I've doted heretofore: He who must be, shall be poor.

  2. She doted on this lad, and on this sense of compassion and regard so new to her.

  3. Ward shut down the book before him; in a few angry, but eloquent and manly words, said he would speak no more in that place; and left Castlewood not in the least regretted by Madam Esmond, who had doted on him three months before.

  4. Yet still my Sister loved, and for the Husband's sake She doted upon the Wife.

  5. She, who doted upon Lorenzo, wished for no better than an opportunity to trumpet out his praise.

  6. She married that poor lad to serve her own purposes and to spite her lover; and while he doted on her, she just looked down on him, and scouted his people because they were in trade.

  7. He was my first-born, and I doted on him.

  8. He doted upon swansdown sofas with springs, French plays, cigars and chocolate.

  9. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

  10. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

  11. Dresser and friend of Princess Charlotte--beloved and respected by all who knew her--and who doted on the little Princess who was too much an idol in the House.

  12. Old man doted on the girl, and until she was full-grown there wasn’t anybody could come nigh enough to her to make a sweet grin effective.

  13. Doted on that girl wife, and I guess I was about the happiest feller that ever cussed a pack mule.

  14. My school-boy friend gave me a cordial greeting; That honest lawyer bade me welcome, too, And doted on my progress and the advice He gave me ere I left my native town.

  15. Years trode upon the heels of flying years, And still my Ignis Fatuus flew before; On thorny paths my eager feet pursued, Till she whose fond heart doted on my dreams Passed painless to the pure eternal peace.

  16. Caterina's husband was popularly known as Il Padrone, or the Master of Venice, and he doted on her with a blind affection.

  17. He was just another kind of 'Johnny Appleseed,' for he doted on apples and used to beg slips and seeds of any new variety until he had one hundred and eighty-two trees in his big orchard.

  18. Anon as Sir Dinadan beheld him, he said, That is the same doted knight that I saw lie by the well, neither sleeping nor waking.

  19. How Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone, and there died.

  20. How Merlin was assotted, and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone, and there died.

  21. Her father doted on her, to me she was very dear, much more for the qualities of her mind than those of her beautiful person.

  22. My mother-in-law so excessively doted on the eldest, that the rest of us were indifferent to her.

  23. I should tell you, sir, that by this time I was the father of a fine boy; and that Aoodya doted on him.

  24. She believed that all Captain Jacka's defects would be set right in another world, though not to hinder her recognising him; and meantime the more he got chipped about the more she doted on what was left of the man.

  25. But if Sir Francis doted on his son, his new spouse did not.

  26. He was the only son of a baronet, who doted on him.

  27. Happy mother, with her only son, on whom she doted and of whom she was so justly proud, about to enter public life in which he was sure to distinguish himself, and to marry a woman who was sure to make him happy!

  28. Her mother doted on her; even the austere Baroni, who ruled his children like a Pasha, though he loved them, was a little afraid of Carlotta.

  29. While Fakredeen plundered her without scruple and used her without remorse, he doted on her; he held her intellect in absolute reverence; a word from her guided him; a look of displeasure, and his heart ached.

  30. Until this happened, we lived together very comfortably; you all saw how I simply doted on her.

  31. You doted on your wife, and see what she's up to, the wretch!

  32. And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her, On the Assyraians, etc.

  33. She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

  34. When you were a child you doted on strawberry ices.

  35. I would never have looked at you if I hadn’t thought she doted on you.

  36. A slight incident dispelled the illusion, and warned the Hebrew that the creature he doted upon was indeed a blind and bigoted idolatress.

  37. And Aholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors.

  38. We require the same for their daughters; to wit, that they be virtuously brought up, and honestly doted when they come to maturity of years, at the discretion of the Kirk.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.