dearie
Example Sentences
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To her husband’s complaints about the demands on a politician’s time, she rejoined: “Well, dearie, suppose no one paid any attention to you at all?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The clerk replied, “‘Oh, don’t worry dearie, all the boys buy their clothes from us,’” he recounted in an interview with the Age newspaper in Melbourne.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023
The Scottish lament, “Sleep, dearie, sleep,” echoed through the abbey as the service drew to a close and the coffin was carried to a naval gun carriage for the trip.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
The Sovereign's Piper of the Royal Regiment of Scotland will play 'Sleep, dearie, sleep'.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
“Oh dearie me. Did you hear that, m’dear? They must be living in our home at St. Ninian’s Church. Oh, whatever shall we do? Our dear little home, full of dreadful rats.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
