affectionate
Example Sentences
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He encourages it to scramble on to a wildflower, with an affectionate: "Welcome to your new home - there you go."
From BBC
He had a long and affectionate marriage to Queen Anna and fathered multiple children.
And could the effect of these be boosted by doses of the chemical messenger oxytocin, a neuropeptide that helps affectionate interactions make us feel better physically and emotionally?
They move the viewer in a way that few others can, as a gentle embrace, an emotion-filled glance, an affectionate act of service all transport us to the love we’ve experienced in our own lives.
"The only way the monarchy works is by everybody either being apathetic or feeling very affectionate towards it," argues Anna Whitelock, a professor of the history of monarchy at City, University of London.
From BBC
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