How to Use obsess in a Sentence

obsess

verb

• You need to stop obsessing and just deal with the problem.
• The war obsesses him—he talks about nothing else.
• North West is obsessed with the 2000s, just like the rest of us.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
• From the age of 4 or 5, I've been obsessed with beaches and planes.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
• There’s plenty of time to obsess over the future and the past.
  — Jessamyn Stanley, SELF, 7 Sep. 2020
• Manfred has been obsessed with the three-hour game and pace of play.
  — Jeff Bailey, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Her parents would later tell me she was obsessed with the city of Paris and the way the city looked in the evening.
  — Ismael Estrada, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• The text is plain: Viewers are ready for a new show to obsess over.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 25 June 2020
• He was obsessed with lips, and now I'm known as the lip person.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
• But in 2021, the streamer plans to up the ante with even more new projects for movie lovers to obsess over.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Trump, in turn, has long been obsessed with the network.
  — Cliff Schecter, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2019
• One thing is for sure—your ex-friends are obsessed with you.
  — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 24 Jan. 2025
• Do not get obsessed with the news, and do not keep checking for hours and hours.
  — Arash Javanbakht, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
• Do not get obsessed with the news, and do not keep checking for hours and hours.
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
• Do not get obsessed with the news, and do not keep checking for hours and hours.
  — Arash Javanbakht, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
• Maybe the children would be as obsessed with the child as politicians were.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The thing is the normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are.
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• There will be some fans, no doubt, who obsess over that.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• Other times, The Black Crowes were the perfect band to obsess over.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 17 Oct. 2019
• Of course a pre-teen girl would be obsessed with the song from the fantasy hit.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• Scroll on for some of our favorite takes on the trend, and prepare to obsess.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2020
• Should one be obsessed with a new kitchen gadget or a new shade of paint?
  — Gina Joseph, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• By the early 1990s, tabloids were obsessed with Glenn’s love life.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2019
• Why Prince Harry is obsessed with turning all the lights off in the house.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2018
• Teixeira was obsessed with war and guns in high school.
  — Mark Scheffler, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• You can be obsessed with it and see everyone all the time.
  — Robin Tribble, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• Those who obsess over free speech, the thinking goes, are missing the point.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• As a kid, he was obsessed with blimps—not Billboard charts.
  — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 24 July 2024
• Why are so many of us obsessed with getting the most impressive job title?
  — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
• To say Hanna-Attisha was obsessed by the lead-in-drinking-water story is an understatement.
  — Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025