dearest
Example Sentences
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Your nearest and dearest may be aware you do it, but you don’t discuss it with strangers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
My husband and I watch “Love Is Blind” with one of those nearest and dearest, and we three approach each season like rabid sports fans who are only in it to yell at the TV.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
As long as you and your wife have enough set aside for retirement, keep living the dream and passing it along to your nearest and dearest.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
"Life has been stripped away. My health is gone. Our home is gone, and the dearest people to our hearts are gone - nothing is left for us."
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
She sobbed out, “Dearest! You are my dearest, my darling, my dear one. A baby, a little baby, when I left you. More than marvelous is this thing that has come to me.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
