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verb

adore

CEFR B2

love intensely

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adore, each labelled with its topic.

  • Fans adore the bassist so completely that they wait four hours in the rain just to hear her solo.

    Music

  • My grandmother adored her copper saucepan, polishing it every Sunday and refusing to let anyone else touch the handle.

    Cooking

  • Visitors adore the small blue painting, returning to that one wall again and again while the larger galleries empty.

    Art

  • Readers adore the grumpy detective far more than the polite one, which is why the sequel doubled his page count.

    Literature

  • The fans adore their backup point guard, chanting his name every time the coach so much as glances down the bench.

    Basketball

  • Children adore the film's clumsy robot, and the studio sold more of that toy than of the hero's action figure.

    Movies

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