How to Use love affair in a Sentence

love affair

noun
  • There's a love affair between the Kings and the city and the NBA.
    Joe Freeman, OregonLive.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Read about my love affair with toum and get the recipe.
    Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 5 Feb. 2018
  • For much of the past 40 years this love affair has served Britain well.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Why is there a love affair — and a cheer — for Ha-seong Kim?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Those lessons and love affairs are yours and yours alone to keep for life.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 1 Sep. 2018
  • As Venus and Uranus clash, a love affair can get steamy!
    USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • But our love affair with you seems to have hit a rough patch.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Mary Kay Cabot had the story of the week about the love affair of him and his wife Annie.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The public’s love affair with the royals has waxed and waned over the seven decades of the Queen’s reign.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Dear Lost: Your love affair sounds like something out of the movies.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Scott says Melody and Rusty's love affair was the world's worst kept secret.
    Susan Mallie, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This isn’t Google’s first love affair with the classic Snake game.
    Megan Lavey-Heaton | Mheaton@pennlive.com, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2019
  • At the same time, Haney’s love affair with Nike was souring.
    Nora Caplan-Bricker, Outside Online, 5 June 2018
  • Could Wall Street’s love affair with Elon Musk be over?
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Beyond Meat and fast food have had a love affair this year.
    Alex Nicoll, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Don’t let any love affairs feel the least bit pressured.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 1 Sep. 2018
  • Van Cleef & Arpels’s love affair with dance goes back decades.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The fashion brand and the rapper have had an intense love affair.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • That was the beginning of a love affair that has lasted to this day.
    Charukesi Ramadurai, Bon Appétit, 14 June 2022
  • Our love affair started in 1995 and burned hot for decades.
    K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2021
  • These are the roots of my love affair with my favorite team, joy and poignancy.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Las Vegas, of course, has a decades-long love affair with the buffet.
    Jenn Harris Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • The love affair between fashion and sport reached a fever pitch this year.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
  • What are your thoughts on the love affair between art and fashion?
    Sara Holzman, Marie Claire, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The love affair between the pair began when Gracie was 36 and Joe (Melton), was just 13.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Les Femmes Cardin has always had a love affair with Asia.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The Broccolis have a love affair with Italy, and it’s in most of their films.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Does Chris and Ana's love affair end up any better than theirs?
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Flashback to the early 2000s when the public’s love affair with cola faltered.
    Jennifer Lutz, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025
  • The Chet Baker starts with the depth of a couple ounces of aged rum, complemented with just a kiss of honey (see the Airmail cocktail for a more lurid love affair between honey and rum).
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 July 2025

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