How to Use obsessive in a Sentence

obsessive

adjective

• Many dancers are obsessive about their weight.
• He is an obsessive workaholic who never stops thinking about his job.
• The new therapy is supposed to help people control their obsessive thoughts.
• One way is to foreground your obsessive commitment to the role—but even that can strike a false note.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• There is the obsessive search for a vessel, a form that will hold a filmic/poetic future, in all of Graham’s work.
  — Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Her dispute by mail with her landlord was epic and obsessive.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Those phones are meant for people who are more obsessive over some features.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• An obsessive quail hunter, Pickens designed and managed the ranch with upland birds in mind, and it’s been called a quail mecca by some.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
• All these works — even the obsessive and eerie ones — feel somehow exultant.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• Sunspot is known for their obsessive attention to detail, and this shirt is spun from some of the finest, most long-lasting cotton fibers on the market.
  — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• Good classes are not recalled in the same obsessive detail as bad ones because good classes are not eventful in the same way.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• Anderson is aware of the obsessive interest in her ’90s style.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
• One of the most important came from her obsessive desire to get rid of her monthly mortgage payment.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Honda cars gained a foothold in the US through an obsessive focus on fuel economy.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• Stephen Carter can be obsessive: about clothes, vintage audio equipment, and chicories.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The formal definition of this condition is an obsessive use of your phone with a lack of self-control.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 July 2022
• If my inner rhythm won, I was tortured by the tempo of my own obsessive brain; if my parents’ arguing won, I was trapped by fear.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• Yet coverage of the crisis in public schools pales in comparison to the obsessive reportage about Harvard and the Ivies.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The well coiffed-Brit is known for his obsessive explorations of all things coffee, from roasting to brewing to enjoying the final cup.
  — Juliet Izon, wsj.com, 26 Sep. 2023
• That said, Stefanski must not fall into the trap of having a pass-obsessive offense.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• But the show does not sweep the grind of creation under the rug, especially as Peter evolves into an obsessive taskmaster.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Gemma, an obsessive prodigy of robotics, had been ordered by her boss to abandon the M3GAN project.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2023
• By all accounts, both players are workaholics, obsessive in regards to their craft.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 27 June 2022
• It’s a willing, constant, obsessive, and chaotic overload of our senses all day long.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• That would be out of the norm for any player, but especially so for Mr. Brady, who is famously obsessive in his training.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• Scrooge is a caricature of a man of business in the Victorian era: a rich, obsessive wealth hoarder.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• But that obsessive focus comes with a cost: a loss of the work/life balance so many career advisors tout as a necessity.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
• And, as always, Lower Decks remains an obsessive Trekkie’s name-dropping best friend.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
• Both are nearly obsessive in adherence to routine and there was nothing about the season that was routine.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024