Examples of love-hate in a Sentence
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But many also have a love-hate relationship with the United States Postal Service.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
For David Wallack, the owner of Mango’s Tropical Cafe in South Beach, a breaking point in the long love-hate relationship came after a series of stampedes last March.
—Carlos Suarez, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
As with all fish-out-of-water stories, the fish (or giant humanoid space lizard) will grow increasingly used to the air, and his temperamental aloneness will war with his increasing need for community, while his love-hate relationship with humanity, its pop culture and food, evolves.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Professional football has always had a love-hate relationship with similar celebrations.
—Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
Europe’s love-hate relationship with SUVs Paris is one of several European cities assessing their relationship with giant family-friendly cars.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Feb. 2024
Americans have a love-hate relationship with tax season.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with self-help books, and for good reason—for a genre with great intentions (at least on paper), a few too many fad diets and get-well-quick schemes tend to steal the spotlight.
—Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Dec. 2023
Pissarro’s relationship with his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, emerges as perhaps the earliest round in the now perpetual love-hate dance between artists and dealers, with the painter first grateful for the money, then suspicious of the cut.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
For David Wallack, the owner of Mango’s Tropical Cafe in South Beach, a breaking point in the long love-hate relationship came after a series of stampedes last March.
—Carlos Suarez, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
As with all fish-out-of-water stories, the fish (or giant humanoid space lizard) will grow increasingly used to the air, and his temperamental aloneness will war with his increasing need for community, while his love-hate relationship with humanity, its pop culture and food, evolves.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Professional football has always had a love-hate relationship with similar celebrations.
—Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
Europe’s love-hate relationship with SUVs Paris is one of several European cities assessing their relationship with giant family-friendly cars.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Feb. 2024
Americans have a love-hate relationship with tax season.
—Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with self-help books, and for good reason—for a genre with great intentions (at least on paper), a few too many fad diets and get-well-quick schemes tend to steal the spotlight.
—Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Dec. 2023
Pissarro’s relationship with his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, emerges as perhaps the earliest round in the now perpetual love-hate dance between artists and dealers, with the painter first grateful for the money, then suspicious of the cut.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
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