How to Use dutiful in a Sentence

dutiful

adjective

• Playing the doting, dutiful partner to the wrong person in hopes of changing them is a canon event.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 20 Feb. 2024
• Like a dutiful cop, the European Union is taking down this evidence to use against Mr Trump.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Second, the Mammy, the dutiful caretaker who insured that everyone, white and black, adhered to the tenets of white supremacy.
  — Arica L. Coleman, Time, 22 Feb. 2018
• Pearl was a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother; a dutiful caregiver to her mother and sister; Fran, and a great friend to all who knew her.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Family members described Shropshire as a dutiful grandson, one who would rent a van and take neighborhood children skating and to the carnival.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• However, as a dutiful scientist, Rogiest warns against applying his ratio on spec.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 22 May 2018
• To help with the harvesting, Hortense hires a pious, dutiful 20-year-old orphan, Francine (Iris Bry).
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2018
• Among Trump supporters and loyalists, Pence has developed a reputation as a dutiful soldier who stays out of trouble.
  — Tom Lobianco, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• The trinity: In our weekly mass celebrating brisket, ribs and sausage, The Big Bib is a dutiful congregant, but one that doubts its faith.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
• And, at the births of both George and Charlotte, curious and dutiful reporters waited outside the Lindo Wing to get their first glimpse of the young royals.
  — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 23 Apr. 2018
• She’s the dutiful wife at home, but seething with anger the moment Kevin leaves the room.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 23 June 2021
• William, 40, is the heir, a dutiful second to their father, the new king.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• When a runner came by, Hal and I would get back to being dutiful.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• But this, frankly, gets short shrift, and feels more dutiful than inspired.
  — David Treuer, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• When the work feels dutiful, there’s less incentive to suit up.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
• Michael is the dutiful son who works day and night to provide for his family.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
• Lake has served as a dutiful mouthpiece for Trump's false claims of election fraud.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 8 Aug. 2022
• The rest of it, the dutiful search, too often disappoints.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Through that last scene in the zoo in Pondicherry, where the goat gets brought on and shoved in the tiger cage, the puppeteer’s doing a dutiful job of keeping the body and the head attached.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Now the store was empty, the dutiful manager at his post, behind the counter.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• After all, Daphne was fairly bland at the beginning of her courtship with the Duke, all doe eyes and dutiful smiles.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
• So many dutiful Bills fans showed up on Friday that lines snaked around the stadium for hours.
  — Jalen Wright, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Kate, seeing the Queen, gave her mother-in-law a dutiful curtsy.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2019
• Warda has made in becoming the dutiful wife of a man in prison are nothing in Amira’s eyes.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• His stiff, dutiful portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, the grand master of the order, hangs in the Louvre.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• The remark flung a hundred and one stereotypes about meek, dutiful, robotic Asian men out the window.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• Greene was in the birthing room when Oliver was born and spent the early years changing diapers and being a dutiful dad.
  — Linda Marx, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• While most comments were about pet cats, some of the felines killed were part of colonies being looked after by dutiful locals.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 23 Oct. 2019
• For years, the public works director was the city’s cleanup man and dutiful caretaker.
  — Jason W. Lloren, SFChronicle.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• Still, de’ Medici served as a dutiful wife, producing heirs and supporting her husband throughout his reign.
  — Dave Kindy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024