How to Use admiring in a Sentence

admiring

adjective

• Then, wiping a hand on his pants, the man hands the bottle to an admiring visitor.
  — Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2015
• Another less admiring aide might have simply tried his best to do so.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• The oldest and rarest, drawing the most admiring murmurs, is a black and silver 1952 British Vincent Rapide.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Spanberger’s answer put her at odds with about half of her fellow House Democrats and some of her most admiring constituents.
  — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
• But the admiring stares tend to come from designers, art directors, and German tourists.
  — Rene Chun, WIRED, 15 July 2017
• The event will feature Drake, who West has spoke of in both admiring and dismissive terms only recently.
  — Katie Song, Variety, 20 Nov. 2021
• As an interpreter, Dyson shares both his admiring and critical commentary that makes the book a fun read.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
• His funeral was held at the Staples Center and President Obama wrote an admiring letter that was read aloud to the attendees.
  — Ross Scarano, Billboard, 6 May 2019
• The film, with its sleeker wardrobe and more substantial visual pleasures, seemed grudgingly admiring of the fashion industry, as commerce, as art.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• In the era of Donald Trump, those conversations turned dramatically less admiring and much more perplexed and even pitying.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• With few exceptions, much popular tech writing takes an overwhelmingly admiring approach to its subjects.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
• The snapshots are affectionate and admiring, and the contradictions in them can give you whiplash — until the end Avedon was pavonine and recessive, autocratic and inhibited, everyone’s best friend and utterly inscrutable.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• But sometimes breadth comes at the expense of intimacy, which factors only intermittently in this deeply admiring but frustratingly choppy encapsulation of the legacy of Gloria Steinem.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024