How to Use codependence in a Sentence

codependence

noun

• And then for me, my codependence was my dad left me and my mom at a young age.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2021
• This can slowly lead to codependence.
  — Mark Travers, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
• That’s getting lost in codependence.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• How very on-brand for the Barbie movie and its themes of patriarchy and codependence.
  — Vulture, 25 Dec. 2023
• But few products illustrate the codependence quite like the soybean.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
• As the bubbles converge, their codependence is a fragile balance maintained through faith.
  — Danny Chau, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• Her hopeless focus on Josh isn’t codependence, but programming.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Jan. 2025
• And so one way to avert violence might be to encourage the two sides to cooperate in the name of their economic codependence.
  — Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2011
• Before long, the two embark on a furtive relationship based on support, guidance, control and codependence.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• The impish Reeves brings puppy-dog codependence to the scruffy Estragon, who leans on Vladimir as his body and memory fail him.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
• Or two self-loathing stepbrothers and their toxic, brutally violent codependence?
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
• At the same time, Ethan and Harper begin to face the cracks in their own relationship, where their codependence veiled as closeness seem to push them further apart.
  — Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
• For those of us who tend to anthropomorphize our cars, Hey Mercedes might lead to a whole new level of automotive codependence.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2020
• Crawford said a seemingly healthy church culture may actually reflect codependence.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
• The novels feel separated at birth; both are stories of enslavement, codependence, control of the future, and women whose will to sustain life is perverted by men.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Too much of her performance in this series, about two women whose codependence is built on various murders of husbands and boyfriends, current or former, is impossible.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 4 May 2020
• In the new season, Tuca and Bertie struggle with the extent to which their codependence prevents them from forming other emotional attachments.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
• Intel’s commercial codependence with Beijing is equally damning.
  — Andrew King, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
• Her ability to keep her word flow off-balance matched her vacillation between strength and weakness, happiness and sadness, codependence and independence.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Now in its second year since the border was closed to nonessential travels, people have adapted to new realities amid a growing debate about what looms ahead for a region whose codependence and uniformity is now in question.
  — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
• That will require a level of coordination and codependence that is unfamiliar and will at times be uncomfortable for both the United States and its partners.
  — Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
• The pair’s fight is fueled by the mundane (a busted dinner party) and the profound (Mark’s addiction, Dawn’s codependence, the constant pressure of professional fighting).
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
• Interpersonal dynamics in rock bands are legendary for their baroque complexity, but even by the accustomed standards, CCR was a study in fraternal and antagonistic codependence.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Anchored in the universal psychological tensions that underlie not just bad dates but most bad dynamics, Jackie and Michael’s thorny sense of instant codependence eventually prompts each person to deliver their own unhinged monologue.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
• But compared with Castorf’s gleefully baffling staging, which often abandoned coherent storytelling altogether, Schwarz’s is fairly straightforward in its account of the codependence and acrimony running through a family.
  — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022