How to Use hate in a Sentence

hate

1 of 2 noun
  • They have been unable to overcome their hates and fears.
  • These crimes are motivated by prejudice and hate.
  • There's a lot of hate in this world and a lot of anger.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The hate crimes on top of that can be used to augment the sentence.
    CBS News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • My mother, who taught me to love even in the face of hate.
    PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The amount of hate in this world is completely flushed by the love.
    Christina Schoellkopf, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
  • It can't be seen as being a den for hate groups and scam artists.
    Author: Conor Sen, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Achieving that level of buy-in might make some of the hate go away.
    The New Yorker, 4 July 2021
  • Georgia is one of four states in the nation that does not have a hate crimes law.
    Leon Stafford, ajc, 9 June 2020
  • Even sadder: some of the hate came from the parents of his classmates.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 1 May 2018
  • But just to tell the hate group to stop using your image is an easy thing to do.
    Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 4 Sep. 2017
  • There’s no room in this race — or our state — for this hate.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • The racists and the we-hate-PC crowd would buy that gear by the truckload.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • What a bummer that someone would go to such great lengths to spread hate.
    Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • There's a thin line between love and hate, the saying goes.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Losing her has put a new lens on my eyes on the amount of hate that exists in our world.
    Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
  • My mother taught me that much of our world was built on the backs of others — and on hate.
    Kanyinsola Oye, Teen Vogue, 29 Mar. 2019
  • Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth.
    Abigail Pogrebin, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The town should be proud of those who attended and stood up loudly against hate.
    Star Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The teen was arrested on battery and hate-crime charges.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The United States doesn’t have laws against hate speech.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There's no hate in our hearts, that's just too heavy of a burden to bear.
    Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • It’s hard to forgive and let go of hate that’s defined you for most of your life.
    Zito Madu, GQ, 26 June 2018
  • Now all gardeners across the region will know where to send their hate mail.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But such hate isn't as clean-cut as some polling suggests.
    Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Trump spews hate — hate of immigrants and of Democrats.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • However, proof that there is more love in this world than hate.
    Henry Youtt, Billboard, 13 July 2018
  • Edelman wakes up after this exchange to an avalanche of hate.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • There’s got to be love for something and there’s got to be a certain amount of hate for it as well.
    Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • With live crowds, the Giants would have received some hate.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2020
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hate

2 of 2 verb
  • What is it that you hate about him most?
  • I hate the idea of leaving my mother alone all week.
  • He was a cruel tyrant who was hated and feared by his people.
  • They hate being apart from each other.
  • She hated them for betraying her.
  • They were political rivals who truly hated each other.
  • The meet was held in the kind of weather that most sprinters hate.
    Joe Magill, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The first is grounded in the fact that coaches hate to tip their hands.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The guys hate trap game talk ... but there could be something to this.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Send tips, questions and hate mail to kbierygolick@enquirer.com.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
    Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Stain your pants with this stuff and your real dog will love and hate you.
    cleveland, 11 May 2022
  • Don’t hate yourself if the duck reminds you of your ex.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2022
  • And wanting to find that balance of you love to hate Zeus.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Others hate it worse than tax day or ketchup on a hot dog.
    Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2021
  • This program helps me to love the person and hate the disease.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Here's what drivers love and hate about the pivotal car.
    Josh Petri, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The beauty of now is that some people will hate our show and that’s fine.
    Kelly MacLean, Los Angeles Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Kind of hate it for him, but at the same time that’s the nature of this business.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2021
  • This starts with making trans erasure, and trans hate a thing of the past.
    Imara Jones, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • So many people have been taught to hate, taught from the cradle.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Dec. 2019
  • They’ve been conditioned to hate all things red and black.
    David Whitley, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Joe is just a hack and a slacker who everyone loves to hate.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Many people hate spiders, and will seek to kill them on sight.
    oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Bankers hate turning to the Fed for short-term funding.
    David Benoit, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Buck has done all of this while knowing so many people hate him.
    Andy Nesbitt, For The Win, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Hundreds of thousands of people are gonna hate your guts.
    Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2022
  • While most of us love a manicured lawn, bees hate them.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Some people are going to love your work and some are going to hate it.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2022

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