endearment

Example Sentences

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It started with a blowup with contestant Ace Greene after he vocalized his discomfort with Espinal touching him and using terms of endearment, in particular the word “babe.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025

Other activists started to call them Grandma and Grandpa, pet names they’ve since adopted at home to replace traditional terms of endearment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

It could be a term of endearment, people saying that they love you for your Blackness, or it could be an insult and an attack.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver sees the label “Chief” as a term of endearment.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024

The staff called Farmer a blan, too—ti blan mwen, “my little white guy”—which he found amusing and considered a term of endearment.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French