Sentence examples for sort of dear from inspiring English sources

Mary Whitehouse is the sort of dear, middle-aged Englishwoman who puts on white gloves and pearls to ride her bicycle to church.

And she sends up saintliness - and perhaps Sybil - when she freezes in the pose (head on one side, vacuous smile) of the sort of dear little holy person you might see in a stained-glass window.

A sort of, "Dear sir, We have reason to believe you recently downloaded, illegally, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream.

"Would you get Don a reasonable sort of chair, dear?" Sara said.

You let me know the next time you "break" some sort of "story," dear.

The Binghams are also related to the Spencers; Lady Bingham's sister Lavinia married the second Earl of Spencer, progenitor of sorts to dear Diana.

"I got home last night and my wife said to me 'What sort of day did you have, dear?' And I told her I was attacked by Harriet Harman and defended by Michael Winner and she said 'What on earth were you up to?'" Read Howard Stoate's article.

So that's why we picked a few things that are sort of near and dear to Canadians hearts and non-Canadians would think they're super lame.

What our noble and still-energetic 91-year old mistook in this case wasn't a mere punctuation matter, but a matter of fact - and the sort of fact that's very dear to the hearts of any journalist... just WHO wrote any given piece.

I went from being chubby and dear to being sort of slanty-eyed and rather nasty, and suddenly this whole new career of smoothy Nazis opened up".

Pip's sister's husband, Joe Gargery, in Great Expectations, is "a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easygoing, foolish, dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness".