admiration

Example Sentences

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It makes me think of their potential struggles and to look at them through a lens of admiration for perhaps working harder than my white-collar colleagues to achieve the American dream.

From The Wall Street Journal

I told her about my newspaper dreams, as well as my admiration for Miss Florence Nightingale and her fame as a nurse.

From Literature

“I have great respect and admiration for Rep. Crockett, and I regret that my words suggested otherwise.”

From Salon

McKenna has been interviewed for the Chelsea job previously, and there is mutual admiration between the club's hierarchy and the Northern Irishman.

From BBC

Ben Sasse has earned respect and admiration for many years and for a wide variety of good reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal