How to Use codependent in a Sentence

codependent

adjective

• The film is about a codependent couple that’s been together for over a decade.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2025
• What if it all could be solved by becoming less codependent, and letting each other cool down a bit?
  — Juliana Castro Varón, New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2026
• But if attention is the junk, the media is the junkie's codependent junkie girlfriend.
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• Break out of a rut by being open to novel approaches toward love and by being less codependent.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
• Her partner in codependent crime is Platt’s Amos Klobuchar, head of drama.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 13 July 2023
• By then the seeds of a mature, non-codependent relationship were sprouting.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
• Louise is able to mend the dress for her, which sparks the beginning of their dangerously codependent friendship.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• The firm’s advice for getting away from your codependent dynamic with overhead lighting?
  — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 26 Dec. 2024
• That’s a very good suggestion for helping this codependent niece recognize the value her aunt has provided to her.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• This time, the couple goes full body-horror in a tale of two codependent spouses who move to the remote countryside to become even closer.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
• The solar eclipse in Libra urges us to bring balance into our lives and relinquish codependent tendencies.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2024
• Soon after, these four characters are involved in a codependent quadruple of shifting alliances and jealous desires.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2025
• But that type of independence often fades away in codependent relationships.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Dec. 2024
• At the start of the novel, Jane is coming off a toxic codependent relationship with her cheating filmmaker boyfriend.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• The show centers on two codependent siblings Hal (Raiff) and Harper (Reinhart), who are facing big life changes.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 June 2025
• The scenario was also exemplary of Pam's codependent behavior.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
• Appalachia, which has been ground into codependent poverty by the coal industry over the course of a century, has been declining, in coal output and employment, for decades.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 July 2019
• There’s some insight into her relationship with Chloe here, one that paints a picture of a codependent and unhealthy pairing, and there’s the ramblings of a depressed woman.
  — Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
• New Yorkers, briefly, had seen themselves as members of a fragile, codependent collective, and that helplessness bred a rare willingness to help others and to be helped in turn.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• Nico Hiraga and Kiernan Shipka star in the comedy as codependent best friends whose high school sweethearts are a buzzkill to their college lives.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
• These were stodgy firms, anchors in the military-industrial complex, codependent on the government, with their own bureaucracies.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
• Through it all, the US and China remain economically codependent.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
• Parachute is set in New York City and follows a young woman with an eating disorder and addiction issues and her codependent partner.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Berto Fernández is excellent as Diana’s well-meaning but codependent husband, Dan.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
• The series follows a group of codependent friends who reunite after some time apart, navigating how the separation, ambition, and new relationships have changed them.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
• Strangely codependent rivals, each is obsessed with his place in history; each is uneasily aware they will be tethered together in posterity; each is willing to sell out the other in a nanosecond.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• The full moon in Libra on the 12th illuminates your relationships, highlighting where you may be stuck in codependent or toxic dynamics.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
• How to stop being so codependent The good news, according to both therapists, is that there are ways to become more independent without having to drift apart—and an easy way to start is by showing yourself some love.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Dec. 2024
• Her untimely passing paired with his inability to parent them forces Hal and Harper to grow up too soon and, in doing so, cling to one another in ways both supportive and codependent.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
• The film starts as a riff on codependent relationships and a narcissistic man-child who nevertheless gets everyone around him to do his bidding, but as the plot swerves in one direction after the other, the satire gets lost.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2025