How to Use obsess in a Sentence

obsess

verb

• You need to stop obsessing and just deal with the problem.
• The war obsesses him—he talks about nothing else.
• North West is obsessed with the 2000s, just like the rest of us.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
• Her parents would later tell me she was obsessed with the city of Paris and the way the city looked in the evening.
  — Ismael Estrada, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• Maybe the children would be as obsessed with the child as politicians were.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The thing is the normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are.
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• Should one be obsessed with a new kitchen gadget or a new shade of paint?
  — Gina Joseph, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Teixeira was obsessed with war and guns in high school.
  — Mark Scheffler, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• This was the mid-nineteen-eighties, and Wiman was obsessed with Wall Street-style wealth.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023?
  — Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2023
• Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• My son was obsessed with this wannabe Mister Rogers–type guy on YouTube.
  — Jonathan Goldstein, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• In a narrative way, I was obsessed with the order of the songs, what song came after what.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 12 May 2023
• A lot of other brands are obsessed with the main character.
  — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Chris Klimek, host: You’ve been obsessed with Abraham Lincoln, his life and his death for most of your life.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• Why are we obsessed as a mob with always killing the messenger?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• If you or someone on your shopping list is obsessed with French sweets, the Eugénie is a must.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
• Still, Carroll has long been obsessed with the notion of outliers.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
• The pause did, however, give De Santis time to obsess over the details.
  — Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2023
• In her 1970 world, tweens were obsessed with the hunt for knowledge about what growing up entails.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
• Give me a break and go obsess about something a bit more important.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• What a leader, what a great, patient loving...and my kids are obsessed with him.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
• At 8 years old, Fumero focused on dance class and obsessed over her favorite pop stars.
  — Bruna Nessif, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
• Their mom obsessed over the three younger girls and mostly ignored her eldest.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
• The dukes as well as kings, popes, cardinals, and princes of a certain era obsessed over porcelain.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• On top of that, Margaux also make a ballet flat mule that we are frankly obsessed with.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
• If there was a contest for girls obsessed with their exes, Olivia Rodrigo would be a shoo-in for the crown.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• Next week, we’ll be obsessed with the voting in New Hampshire, which has less than half as many people as Iowa.
  — Gail Collins, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Commenters were obsessed with the idea and encouraged the couple to start selling them.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• He and Emmett are now obsessed with the same book series about a superhero cat.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Fortune, 10 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024