How to Use daddy in a Sentence
daddy
noun- Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours.
- I stopped calling my father “Daddy” because I thought it sounded childish.
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Would have been talking to him the whole time about his daddy.
— Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017 -
Wow, look at that car; that’s a car only a pimp daddy would like.
— Wendy Ruderman, Philly.com, 24 Dec. 2017 -
Yet to say these are your daddy’s Lions is short-sighted.
— Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2017 -
Fully grown Becca shouldn’t climb because her daddy doesn’t like it?
— Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 15 Jan. 2018 -
Chubb would give the Colts a true war daddy pass rusher that the Colts really lack.
— Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2018 -
His daddy got murdered in a home invasion—and Jamal seen it.
— Peter King, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017 -
After that, Juanita stopped calling him daddy and began referring to him by his first name.
— Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 5 Jan. 2018 -
Running to mommy and daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
— Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017 -
Dirty Dancing charts the summer romance of a bad-boy dance instructor named Johnny and a well-off daddy's girl named Baby.
— Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 4 Dec. 2017 -
The son bull says to the daddy bull, look at all of those cows down there.
— Julia Fair, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2020 -
One of my daddy’s friends right here on the range taught me how to hit balls.
— I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 26 May 2023 -
And to cap off the big Celtics win, @Dwhite921 just became a daddy!!
— Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022 -
Badar [Shammas] took to the role of daddy like a pro as well.
— Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024 -
That’s the schools, the principals, the teachers, the mama, the daddy.
— Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023 -
And that was a patient daddy to take care of her and feed her lots of treats and love.
— Rick Badger, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022 -
One of the neighbors heard, and my daddy gave me a whipping.
— Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Genevieve Page is tough but touching as the madam whose heart belongs not to the daddies but to the girls.
— Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018 -
How to tell three toddlers daddy has to go away to get help.
— Aubrey Whelan, Philly.com, 8 Apr. 2018 -
To start, think of Saturn as the strict daddy of the zodiac.
— Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 17 May 2021 -
Love me, love Tatum, love your cousins, love Lovey, love your daddy.
— Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024 -
Love me, love Tatum, love your cousins, love Lovey, love your daddy.
— Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024 -
Then there were the daddy-daughter dances at our high school.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020 -
With no daddy around to help rock the cradle, the doe always takes full charge.
— Matt Williams, Dallas News, 3 July 2021 -
The tiny cutie smiled extra wide as she was held by her daddy.
— Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022 -
One says his daddy told him Ali lost the fight because he was drugged.
— Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021 -
And, mommas and daddies should be able to send their kids to school, to church, to movie theaters, to clubs.
— Tamara Fuentes, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 May 2018 -
Which takes us back to the beginning: What happens when a leather mama and a latex daddy fall in love?
— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024 -
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who knows daddy issues often make good television.
— Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
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