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.
  • 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
  • Please dunk on him so hard that his daddy runs on the court to save him.
    Dan Gelston, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
  • 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
  • Would have been talking to him the whole time about his daddy.
    Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Our kids don’t have to look very far to see that — just to their own mommy and daddy.
    Michael Boren, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Love me, love Tatum, love your cousins, love Lovey, love your daddy.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Love me, love Tatum, love your cousins, love Lovey, love your daddy.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 27 June 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
  • Wow, look at that car; that’s a car only a pimp daddy would like.
    Wendy Ruderman, Philly.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Both Cyborg and the Flash have daddy issues to sort out.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The daddy vest is retired now, but the date vest fits pretty well.
    Richard Espinoza, kansascity, 5 July 2017
  • Unbeknownst to Ryan, the rest of the world ain't too happy with his daddy.
    Alex Raiman, EW.com, 8 July 2022
  • And on a funnier side, Chuck does desire to be a daddy one day.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 May 2021
  • The problem isn’t that daddy LaVar has convinced his son not to work out for the Celtics before the draft.
    Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 26 May 2017
  • Emily held her toddler Micah Jane on her hip as daughter Andie Mae, 4, stood in between her mommy and daddy.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, nothing here can be attributed to daddy issues alone; a man like Aaron Hernandez is shaped by a whole range of influences, not just one.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024

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