Fond

//fɒnd//

"Fond" in a Sentence (27 examples)

Are you fond of swimming?

What are you fond of?

Generally speaking, Americans are very fond of coffee.

Are you fond of music?

In general, little girls are fond of dolls.

Generally speaking, little girls are fond of dolls.

In general, the English are extremely fond of their pets.

I am very fond of lobsters, but they are very, very expensive.

Mary has become very fond of Charles.

Aren't you fond of playing tennis?

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I am fond of this song!

more fond on her than she upon her love

a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

a fond farewell

a fond mother or wife

I have fond grandparents who spoil me.

“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”

Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.

Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond.

[T]hou seest How suttly to detaine thee I devise, Inviting thee to hear while I relate, Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply …

But reason with your fond religion fights, For many gods are many infinites …

The foolish, fond Old Year,

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.

To denote archival material collected from Ukrainian archives I have used the Ukrainian system of classification (i.e. fond, opys, sprava and arkush). I have used the Russian system for material from Russian archives (i.e. fond, opis, delo, stranitsa). I have also provided a glossary of terms used for Ukrainian, Russian or Polish terms at the back of the thesis for easy reference.

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