Sentence examples for fond as from inspiring English sources

But fond as I am of my aerobics classmates, they are not what lure me back.

As Charlotte grew up, she felt more compatible with him than with her mother, fond as she was of her mother's — somehow — childishness.

Mother set the tone; Dad and I followed, and even Rupert the parrot, fond as he was of cream cheese, had a little salmon.

But she is not merely fond, as she puts it, of the "wanton use of first person" — she throws herself into the story.

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Nor have I included anything mostly comical, like Dustin Hoffman catching Anne Bancroft on the inhale in "The Graduate" or, fond as I am of Brad Dourif smooching his creation through bulletproof glass in "Alien Resurrection," any variety of interspecies foreplay.

Medieval monks were also fond of acrostics, as were the poets of the Middle High German and Italian Renaissance periods.

Kentucky's memories of Indianapolis aren't as fond.

He was also very fond of animals, having as many as five of his own Daschunds.

His teachers of philosophy struck him as too fond of generalities and too worshipful of the past.

They are also fond of religion as a topic.