admire

IPA: ædmˈaɪr

(obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
(transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
(transitive) To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
(US, dialectal, rare) To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)

Examples of "admire" in Sentences

In the field of fiction the book I most admire is The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald.
Every single American you love and admire is an immigrant or the child of immigrants.
Senator John and Cindy McCain admire Freight Train, the big boar contest winner, at the Iowa State Fair.
The metamorphous stage of turning an idea into something people can appreciate and admire is truly an art form.
And then ... * boom* something I desperately needed to hear from someone I respect and admire, is His answer to me.
Another storyteller in the SF and fantasy realm whom I really admire is Orson Scott Card -- both for the Ender and the Seventh Son series.
[1] I admire the _first_ sincerely, and in turn call upon you to _admire_ the following on Anacreon Moore's new operatic farce, [2] or farcical opera -- call it which you will:
Christy of From the Mountain Top to the Valley Floor, a mom/blogger I greatly admire, is facing a transition in her life and with it floods back a lot of raw emotion for her beautiful son, Elias and their months on the NICU roller coaster.