Sentence examples for affection often from inspiring English sources

They wanted to marry and did nothing to hide their affection, often holding hands.

With growing families and busy lives, affection often fades or is diverted to the children.

Such on-air expressions of affection — often for convicted murderers, robbers and gang leaders — can be bittersweet.

The poems in "Near Changes" and "Firefall" frequently become public gestures of affection, often to other poets, and many of them take as their subjects poetry or being a poet (one poem is about winning the Pulitzer Prize).

I assume this is because the paintings entered for the award tend to be "portraits of affection", often of family members, friends and neighbours rather than of renowned achievers.

During this last phase, the batterer ceases violent behavior and displays affection; often he even promises that the violence will not recur.

LONDON — St. Valentine's Day, in many places, is a day for the enamored, or simply lustful, to communicate their affections, often anonymously, to the object of their yearnings.

Indeed it seems to be the case that benevolent actions and affections often do make people happy.

As a woman I became an object for someone else's affection, and often times rage.

"We have become more self-conscious and detached, so we see affection less often," she says.

Mom invariably calls each of her three sons "Buddy," and Dad's term of affection is often "Dude".