How to Use admiring in a Sentence

admiring

adjective
  • Another less admiring aide might have simply tried his best to do so.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Do not so much as send a chastely admiring note—you’ll get wound up waiting for a response.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Then, wiping a hand on his pants, the man hands the bottle to an admiring visitor.
    — Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2015
  • Today, he is known by relatively few — but those few are deeply admiring.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Sep. 2024
  • But the admiring stares tend to come from designers, art directors, and German tourists.
    — Rene Chun, WIRED, 15 July 2017
  • To the admiring, conquest was neat, romantic and at once novel and familiar.
    — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 26 May 2023
  • As an interpreter, Dyson shares both his admiring and critical commentary that makes the book a fun read.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The event will feature Drake, who West has spoke of in both admiring and dismissive terms only recently.
    — Katie Song, Variety, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Other Democratic strategists who know Mehlhorn were less admiring.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • With few exceptions, much popular tech writing takes an overwhelmingly admiring approach to its subjects.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Reviews of the film, which opened in Japan back on July 14 and has grossed a formidable $53 million there, have been very admiring.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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 book was, beneath its judicious and even-handed surface, biased against Didion to an outrageous degree, and the book was, behind its admiring posture toward her, violent toward her.
    — Lili Anolik, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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