Sentence examples for excessively fond from inspiring English sources
The usual story associated with the Wild Hunt involves someone excessively fond of the chase who makes a rash pledge or compact with a stranger (the devil) and is thus doomed to hunt forever.
Kerik's predecessor, Howard Safir, though no crook, was perhaps excessively fond of the trappings of the office, even when he was no longer that office's occupant: after he resigned, in 2000, he retained a security detail of as many as a dozen cops for more than a year, at taxpayer expense.
The new Chambers (Chambers Harrap, £25) wisely does not spend space trying to be an encyclopedia but it is excessively fond of non-English words: angst and blitz, zeitgeist and zugzwang, fair enough, but what are Flammenwerfer or Zeitvertreib doing here?
The Danes were "almost excessively fond of their flag", said a professor on the bus, adding that they believed it to be the first national flag in the world – a flag that represented a country rather than a knight or a monarch – and had been first recorded as such in the 14th century.
Over the past 18 months the party has picked at the Labour government's approach to using IT, claiming that it was excessively fond of big, ambitious programmes that gave too much to the big systems integrators, often fell well short of their aims and wasted taxpayers' money.
A gourmand is someone who is excessively fond of eating and drinking, and has therefore allowed himself to become enslaved by pleasure.
I was really fond of Joe.
"You become quite fond of the patients!
