How to Use love affair in a Sentence

love affair

noun
  • Why is there a love affair — and a cheer — for Ha-seong Kim?
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • As Venus and Uranus clash, a love affair can get steamy!
    USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • 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
  • Could Wall Street’s love affair with Elon Musk be over?
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The love affair between the pair began when Gracie was 36 and Joe (Melton), was just 13.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Does Chris and Ana's love affair end up any better than theirs?
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Bruno claims the judge had a lover, but a search of her home doesn't reveal evidence of a love affair.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Andy told the Chicago Tribune that his love affair with the kitchen began at a young age.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This love affair with the reading public could not last.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
  • This would be the beginning of my love affair with hot tools and, moreover, blowouts.
    Andrea Aliseda, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Colbert said in response to a series of squeaks breaking the celeb love affair news to him.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Throughout the story, Evelyn tells Monique the tale of her life, career, and love affairs.
    Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 29 June 2023
  • In the nightlife venues of 1950s post-war Paris, the protagonist, David, engages in love affairs with men.
    Elaina Patton, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Maria Callas embarked on a nine-year-long love affair with Onassis in 1959.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The cinematic love affair has extended to the rest of the province of Almería, too.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Charles had a long love affair with the woman who later would become his wife.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps this is why some of you are having a secret love affair.
    Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • So this love affair with cosmopolitans is not just on-screen?
    Meg Donohue, ELLE, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Edward wrote about his childhood as heir to the throne, his time at Oxford, and his love affair with Simpson.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The designer, known for his love affair with blue and white, also drew on his favorite scheme.
    Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The brooch was for the Duchess of Windsor, and the moment would mark the beginning of not just Wallis Simpson’s love affair with the feline motif but the rest of the world’s.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But then all imploded because of a love affair gone wrong.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Keep Breathing leans in heavily to flashbacks of Liv’s childhood and her adult love affair to build the plot.
    Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2022
  • And hairstyling is just the beginning of TikTok’s love affair with gizmos and doodads.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, her love affair with the classic hue started here at Allure with Swift's April 2009 cover shoot.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 June 2023
  • Louis and Armand's love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future.
    EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024

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