fawn on
Example Sentences
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As Mills cruises through St. Elizabeths, he points out a fawn on the grass.
From BusinessWeek • Jul. 25, 2013
Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler.
From Time Magazine Archive
All they do is beam and fawn on Mama.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is remembered chiefly as the desperate shuffler and paltry traitor who tried to blow hot and cold, to fawn on Hanover with one hand and to beckon the Stuarts with the other.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
