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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dear
[
deer
]
/
dɪər
/
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Part of Speech:
Main Entry:
dear
Part of Speech:
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Main Entry:
dear
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example Sentences
Dear
reader, please drive safely today and do not get electrocuted when unplugging your laptop after reading this.
We have
dear
and close friends who regularly invite us for dinner.
So we're asking you,
dear
readers, to supply a proper caption for the picture and headline above.
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Dear
reader, please drive safely today and do not get electrocuted when unplugging your laptop after reading this.
We have
dear
and close friends who regularly invite us for dinner.
So we're asking you,
dear
readers, to supply a proper caption for the picture and headline above.
The price of admission-free for all-is surely near and
dear
to any student's heart.
He by her father's will was now her
dear
companion and husband.
Finished, he ambles into deeper water, where he suddenly lights into
dear
old mom with play swipes of his paws.
Please,
dear
college presidents, stop sending for the police.
And we're going to let you, our
dear
readers, help us decide where he should go and what he should do.
It is all so bleak that you feel the urge to grab a bottle of vodka and cling to it for
dear
life.
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Main Entry:
dear
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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