FAWN in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for FAWN, such as:

1. He fawns on being a scientist.
2. The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
3. A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.
4. A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
5. There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAWN
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fawn
 n.  young deer; buck or doe of the first year; young of an animal
Classic Sentence:
1  Scarlett thought she had never seen such elegant pants as he wore, fawn colored, shepherd's plaid, and checked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Uncas, you are right; the dark-hair has been here, and she has fled like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  On the face of this there was a device that shewed a dog holding a spotted fawn between his fore paws, and watching it as it lay panting upon the ground.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
5  Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
6  There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
8  As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
9  The sailors, mostly poor devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
10  He received me in his usual fawning way, and pretended not to have heard of my arrival from Mr. Micawber; a pretence I took the liberty of disbelieving.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
11  'You haven't need to say so much, nor half so much, nor anything at all,' observed Uriah, half defiant, and half fawning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
12  A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
13  Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.
2  The fawn ran to the top of the ridge.
3  Shamelessly fawning over a particularly generous donor, the dean kept on referring to her as "our munificent benefactor.".
4  Helen liked to be served by people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.
5  Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
6  She was constantly surrounded by a group of fawning admirers who hoped to win some favor.
7  Female deer leave their fawns in secluded spots while they forage for food.
8  He fawns on being a scientist.