- present tense form of adore (3rd person singular).
adores
Example Sentences
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The 54-year-old fisherman from a small village in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, has been a superfan of the Argentine football team since the 1980s and adores superstar Lionel Messi.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
“There are confused feelings that Caroline goes through because she absolutely adores and loves her husband.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
If the best way to hit it big is to make a podcast that someone like Altman adores, then the rest of us are probably in trouble.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026
Mr. Jacobs also adores the look of the taxi dancers—“broken dolls,” he calls them—in Bob Fosse’s movie “Sweet Charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
“Kimberly adores her husband, and her husband adores himself. She should leave him but she never will,” she said once, about the woman she had worked for in America, the woman with obi ocha.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
