Sentence examples for affection for someone from inspiring English sources

This campaign included systematic leaks of information to his parents by family members who were sympathetic to his affection for someone outside of their race.

Come the next day, though, everyone had read about his family and developed affection for someone they'd previously been neutral about.

So did affection for someone they had gotten to know over the two years since she moved there, after she could no longer fend for herself in an assisted-living apartment.

Yesterday, the day after the cardinal died of cancer at the age of 80, they and many others expressed unabashed affection for someone who challenged their various perceptions of who he was and what he believed in.

Bae is also used as a term of endearment and affection for someone with whom there is no romantic involvement or interest (not unlike "honey" or "sweetheart" is used in Southern dialogue), as in "Hey bae, can you pass me that plate?" And then Pharrell put it in a song, Miley Cyrus did a cameo, and it gained the attention of mainstream media.

If your affection for someone isn't reciprocated, then there's no harm or foul.

"I really celebrate the fact he's done it, I love the fact he's taken the time and care to explore his emotions and his affections for someone in verse and I think that's a big deal.

But he is also a man who has come to know these animals intimately and to feel great affection for them, someone who, when he learns in the book's wrenching finale that Daniel, Absolom, Benjamin and other favorites have been felled by that same tuberculosis, struggles to devise a ritual way to grieve.

I yearn for some love and affection from someone and, although I could go on as I am, when I think of the next 30 years or so without this, especially when my children have left, I feel very down.

Mr. Vargas Llosa said the anecdote from the Trujillo era that most impressed him described how peasants would bring their daughters to the dictator as gifts -- a demonstration, he said, of the almost religious affection they had for someone they regarded as "an incarnate divinity".

Save the bulk of your affection and gifts for someone who already supports you and shows appreciation.