How to Use be in love in a Sentence

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  • And to be in love means to choose that person over and over again, to go through the messy stuff with.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Yet at least two other people appear to be in love with Alma.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no way two people who treat each other this way can actually be in love.
    Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 19 July 2021
  • Whatever the reason, everyone wants to be in love in the fall.
    Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 21 July 2023
  • Pride and Williams create a world in which Black people can just be, and just be in love, hangups and all.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • According to both Conley and Adam’s friends, the two appeared to be in love.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • High schoolers should be in love with their prom dresses, said Victoria Kotsovos.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Any area of life is worth focusing on depending on your birth chart — but this transit makes people want to boss up and be in love.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • Could anyone be in love ever again, knowing exactly what their partner is thinking about them?
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • With the world crumbling down around her, Suki Waterhouse is grateful to be in love.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • To change—but also just to be in love, like, to relate in a really loving way to another person.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • And for some reason, this song took on the meaning to me of wanting to be free and wanting to be in love and wanting to belong to somebody.
    New York Times, 20 June 2021
  • Rafi, the youngest, may be in love with his hot childhood best friend Ash, who is visiting from London for the season.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In all fairness to Shevchenko and Grasso, White didn’t appear to be in love with the action in the main event.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Many of us can’t fathom the idea of someone not wanting to be in love, but love is all around us and is experienced in a magnitude of ways.
    Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Conservatives may not be in love with tech companies at the moment, nor should these businesses be above reproach.
    Andrew Wilford, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Traffickers will target a woman by pretending to be in love with her, according to Turza.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 21 May 2024
  • Recovering from an operation to repair a hole in her head, Allison might also be in love with her surgeon.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • So while Toni and Cheryl may be in love now, their families find themselves on the opposites sides of some pretty brutal history.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2021
  • There's no shortage of love songs — about wanting to be in love, falling in love, falling out of love — and then along came Miley with a song about being fine just loving your damn self.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Despite that, another stalker claiming to be in love with her appeared at her doorstep just weeks ago after finding her new address — and her mother’s phone number — online.
    New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • When one character says that having access to a yacht is worth the risk of being killed, her blithe assessment doesn’t land as a shocking provocation; the camera seems to be in love with the boat too.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Instead, Emily left the envelopes for her brother, Austin, who wanted to write to Sue in secret, and who happened to be in love with her himself.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
  • After a sleepless night, Roald (who happens to be in love with Kate, and is very not cool with Joe hooking up with her), chases Joe into the woods to kill him.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023
  • On paper, everyone seems to be in love with the Arizona Cardinals heading into the 2020 season.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Especially since there haven't been many movies about gay romance, this was a really rare gift to get to portray a fully expansive romance — all the ins and outs and ups and downs of two men who happen to be in love with each other.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Split Fiction is a massive success with critics, and users appear to be in love with Hazelight Studios' new co-op fantasy adventure title.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Letty surely used to be in love with Jordana Brewster but then pitifully married Jordana Brewster’s brother instead.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Powell, 35, and Sweeney, 26, play a pair of destination wedding attendees who pretend to be in love after a previous fling gone wrong in the new romantic comedy.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023

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