Sentence examples for fawn on from inspiring English sources

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"fawn on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an idiom which means to make overly enthusiastic displays of affection in order to curry favor with someone. For example, you could say: "She was so desperate to be accepted that she fawned on everyone in the office."

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His most productive collaboration was with Audrey Hepburn, whom he met in 1953 when she was working on "Roman Holiday" and subsequently photographed on several of her movie sets and at home -- lounging, in one memorable image, on a sofa with a fawn on her lap.

Newspapers fawn on you.

I did not fawn on Lowell the poet.

The same gallery owners who fawn on Einar dismiss her portraits as too conventional.

Britain would continue to fend off immigrants, fawn on China and flog everything to east Asia.

Perhaps it was spotting a fawn on the lawn at sunrise.

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The Forum scenes are staged with particular brilliance: at one point, the fickle mob fawns on Brutus, who gets swallowed up in the adoring crowd only to be instantly replaced by Mark Antony who is greeted first with guns and then with approving murmurs as his speech is avidly watched on TV monitors.

"All the other girls fawned on him.

Henry Kissinger is fawned on wherever he goes.

The local officials fawned on Sharansky, and that pleased him mightily.

He was a snob who fawned on royalty and admired fascism.

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