How to Use amour in a Sentence

amour

noun

• He’s just gotten to the top of a ladder and is about to hop over the balustrade to join his amour.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• On one level this is a tale about an amour fou with a dress.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 July 2022
• Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• David Parnes and Adriana Abnosi tied the knot in the country of amour on Sunday.
  — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2017
• Emily in Paris has rekindled an amour fou with French style.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• Thanks to Madame Pazargadi’s amour for her students and the French language, the French wedding has grown each year.
  — Andrea Mills, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
• Paris The capital of amour lives up to its name, at least for traveling ladies.
  — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2018
• Your language of love is French: There really is something about amour and French food.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• Williams compared his departure to being dumped by a longtime girlfriend, and in that regard, his new amour is like his ex's good friend.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
• Their relationship is an ‘amour fou,’ a crazy love between two outsiders from different worlds.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
• But while the bucks and does of Cook and Lake Counties actively pursue one another to produce their own little Bambis, the amour can produce danger for motorists.
  — Lisa Cisneros, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Wearing a bold floral print dress, Clarkson flawlessly captured the track’s come hither arrangement and Morris’ ready-for-amour vibe.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 June 2022
• And while you might be getting pumped (and primped: hello, little black dress) for a romantic night out with your main squeeze, there’s another kind of amour that deserves recognition: girlfriend love.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 Jan. 2023
• Common cause, in turn, leads to common ground (both aspire to be writers), common ground to friendship, and friendship, for Casement, to a misty-eyed amour fou that will long outlast Ward’s youthful handsomeness.
  — David Leavitt, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2016
• Shy loner August falls head over heels for uber-cool commuter Jane—only to discover that her amour fou is actually trapped in the New York subway system, circa 1970.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 July 2021
• There's amour fou, and then there is Katia and Maurice Krafft, a pair of married French volcanologists whose passionate union was forged at the molten center of some of the 20th century's most notorious eruptions.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• While not exactly a salutation to schadenfreude, perhaps there’s more to learn from the failing amour fou of others than celebrating the saccharine slander of forced fallacies.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Speaking to Snobiety, Eilish, 20, was a bit more circumspect about her love life, avoiding mentioning her 31-year-old partner while speaking in more general terms about the head-spinning concept of amour.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• The big paintings theatricalize stages of adolescent amour—resisted seduction, furtive intimacy, triumphant union, and subsequent nostalgia—among young people at court who were given nothing to do in life except to dress up and to play at love.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024