1.   You are my dearest, my darling, my dear one.

2.   Some people buy very expensive presents for their relations, dear ones.

3.   Every day I come and say a prayer for my dear one.

4.   Labor Day, Halloween, Christmas have come and gone, and I have not yet spent a night with my dear one.

5.   Make it clear to your dear little ones that a garage sale is not Leaps and Bounds.

6.   Then came the collective prayers and poems, personal reactions, from dear ones and from friends of friends many times removed.

7.   These holidays have been very sad, of course, for all of us, with our dear one gone.

8.   We wait too long to express our concern for parents, siblings, and dear ones.

9.   Yes, Patricia Millicent had errands to run, yes, a dear one was suddenly gone.