Sentence example with the word 'paternal'

paternal

adoring, concerned, faithful, fond, husbandly, lovelorn, maternal, motherly, patrilateral, romantic, tender

Definition adj. belonging to or inherited from one's father

Last update: July 31, 2015


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Due to his father's death he was deprived of paternal love.   [Please select]

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Was she encouraging Alex to assume a paternal role, or was she merely old-fashioned enough to think that men and women had specific roles?   [Please select]

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Jean Valjean's manners were more tender and more paternal than ever.   [Please select]

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And he suddenly smiled, in an unexpected and tenderly paternal way.   [Please select]

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From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.   [Please select]

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"There is paternal love."   [Please select]

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It is like that other paternal arrangement--capitalism.   [Please select]

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In a few months' time, Julio passed entire weeks without going to sleep under the paternal roof.   [Please select]

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