dotes upon
Example Sentences
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He is an amazing dad who dotes upon our child, and he has never pressured me to try for another child or start the fostering process, although I know he wants both.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2020
He is ravenous — for food, for experience, for the acceptance of his peers — and he scarcely thinks about the solicitous father who dotes upon him.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018
France's nuclear force de frappe is the pride of Charles de Gaulle's old age, and he dotes upon it as part of his ultimate legacy to France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore it is that Levana often communes with the powers that shake man's heart: therefore it is that she dotes upon grief.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
She dotes upon men unshaven, And men with “flowing hair;” She’s eloquent over mustaches, They give such a foreign air.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
