Sentence examples similar to lavish affection upon from inspiring English sources

Loving Theo required lavishing affection upon him and receiving almost none in return.

Oxford, 348 pp., £19.99, November 2002, 0 19 818377 1 Once upon a time there was a little girl who, at the age of two, had in some fashion to be told that her father had just cut off the head of the beautiful mother who used to lavish affection on her, and pretty clothes.

And who better to lavish affection on a child, than a newly discovered grandparent?

It's his mother he writes to most, in letters peppered with the sort of lavish affection and extravagant proclamations that most people reserve for lovers.

Lady Rosebery, an orphan and only child, appears to have been desperate to lavish affection.

Elephants are highly social animals who lavish affection and attention on their family members.

He lavishes affection on the Staffordshire terrier.

Of course, she knows that, for most people, life is about lavishing affection on children, not dogs.

Instead of lavishing affection on Paul, she diverts it into caring for stray dogs.

Even now, she lavishes affection on her cat, and seems more interested in her than in herself.

There she was looked after by overstretched staff who lavished affection on her and treated her with dignity.