DUTIFUL in a Sentence

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301 example sentences for DUTIFUL, such as:

1. What are the duties of a traffic warden?
2. Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
3. I'm sure my boss thinks I've been neglectful of my duties recently.
4. She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
5. The teacher suggested the tall pupil as monitor to assist in routine duties.

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dutiful
 a.  careful to fulfill obligations; expressing or filled with sense of obligation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is thus," said Prince John, "that we set the dutiful example of loyalty to the Queen of Love and Beauty, and are ourselves her guide to the throne which she must this day occupy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  If he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  "I'll do my best to gratify you, Sir," was Laurie's unusually dutiful reply, as he carefully unpinned the posy Jo had put in his buttonhole.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
5  Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Close to him, dressed in entirely new clothes, advanced smilingly Count Andrea Cavalcanti, the dutiful son, whom we also know.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
7  Neither was I surprised when, on the very next day, Uriah, like a dutiful son, brought his worthy mother to take possession.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
8  The folding chairs were filled with people who looked washed and ironed: parents of the pupils, girl students, dutiful teachers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
10  She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  But the consideration of these points, and the well balancing of what you may esteem your duties, I leave to you; my judgment and ideas are already disturbed by the near approach of death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
16  One of the teacher's principal duties is to prepare students for external examinations.
17  I'm sure my boss thinks I've been neglectful of my duties recently.
18  Thus, for example, customs duties, discriminatory internal taxation and quotas have been abolished.
19  Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations to his family and friends.
20  What are the duties of a traffic warden?
21  In truth there was no such code; chivalry as a set of ideals and duties changed throughout the Middle Ages to meet new socio-economic realities.
22  But the official Miss America website stresses you performed all your duties in exemplary fashion before you gave up the crown.
23  He heard a door open and close twice, but there was only Misha and Andrus engaged in inane conversation, and not paying attention to their duties.
24  I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
25  The court did issue a stinging rebuke for what it calls their indifference to their constitutional duties.
26  Today's plumber is in demand and has expanded duties, which include installing, repairing and maintaining piping.
27  Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts over social duties.
28  The teacher suggested the tall pupil as monitor to assist in routine duties.
29  He was supposed to be marking off yardage in anticipation of his caddying duties for the 69th United States Women's Open, which will get underway on Thursday.
30  Most people accept the proposition that we have a duty to protect endangered animals.