Sentence examples for Fondly from inspiring English sources

I was a young journalist; I didn't get on to the newsdesk for three or four years, until the retirement in the early 70s of the news editor, fondly known as "the bosun", whose favoured maxim was "My arse is a teacake".

Related: Amtrak crash: safety mechanism to slow speeding trains was close to operational Gaines worked as a staffer with the news agency for 17 years, his colleagues fondly referring to him as a "geek's geek", in the wire's announcement of his death.

Those of us who fondly delude ourselves that Scotland is the global mecca for the socially progressive really need to snap out of it soon.

On the other hand, Canberrans speak fondly of how easy it is to get around – unlike the gridlock of Sydney and Melbourne.

Yes, recent findings prove that we pale, neurotic, black-clad creatures – members of an acned little colony rather than the empire rulers we fondly imagine ourselves to be – are just as unhealthy as that lot.

Mum took me to my first gig, to see Rod Stewart, when I was seven, but it's Dad's record collection I remember most fondly – from Eric Clapton and Dr Hook to Fleetwood Mac.

"I got booed at the Gabba [in a one-day game] but I never remember being booed in my home ground, but I remember that fondly," Clarke joked.

We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.