fawn on
Example Sentences
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As Mills cruises through St. Elizabeths, he points out a fawn on the grass.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 25, 2013
The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein.
From Time Magazine Archive
They soon became much attached to me, and would fawn on me like dogs, licking my face and hands; they were always, however, ready to growl and snap at a stranger.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
