Examples of tough love in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The contestants and their tough love mentors grow and change as each episode progresses, supporting, encouraging and offering a shoulder to cry on. — Emily Smith, EW.com, 9 July 2022 The trenchant comedy is a tough love letter to their native Bay Area, about two best friends navigating gentrification, police brutality and a shifting sense of belonging. — Naveen Kumar, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022 When Phoebe is drowning in the consequences of, say, a nip slip on Instagram Live, Malika is always on the next train over, ready to provide an open ear and tough love in equal measure. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 July 2022 Scared and snapping at our attempts at rescue, this mini-pinscher had to be rangled with a blanket and tough love. — cleveland, 7 June 2022 The group even received praise from judge Simon Cowell, who's known for delivering tough love to contestants. — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 1 June 2022 Late last year, San Francisco Mayor London Breed promised to bring tough love to the troubled Tenderloin. — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022 Hopelessly entitled or simply in need of tough love? — Rodney Ho, ajc, 20 June 2022 One may peruse in vain volumes of famous quotations and find precious little in praise of Ireland by its own most famous authors, whose sad, tough love for their native land was always being crashed on the rocks of history. — John Mariani, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022 See More

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