Sentence examples for inordinate fondness from inspiring English sources

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

He replied that it demonstrated "an inordinate fondness for beetles".

Because of two plastic raincoats that were sometimes hung in the room, she had an inordinate fondness for anything plastic.

Were Haldane alive today, he might want to refine his answer to "an inordinate fondness for Polyphaga".

None of which interfered with Aleksandr's inordinate fondness for smoked sturgeon, Rossini operas and women with small feet.

The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane, asked what a lifetime of study had taught him about the nature of God, replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles".

For a couple of centuries, New York State's official motto has been "Excelsior," which presumably has nothing to do with an inordinate early American fondness for wood shavings.

While scientists try to determine if sugar is addictive or if Americans just have an inordinate preference for sweets, one UC researcher says our fondness for sweet foods stems from a culture of consumption.

That fondness shines through.

Their fondness for it….

It's an inordinate form".