How to Use loathe in a Sentence

loathe

verb
  • It was a habit his wife loathed.
  • I loathe having to do this.
  • They were rivals who truly loathed each other.
  • There are those who loathe the excess of moisture in the air.
    Jessica Lynne, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The calls were dead ends, and Josiah came to loathe making them.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • As the show makes clear, the swans feared and loathed two things: bad lighting and younger women.
    Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The two cells had come to truly loathe each other, and Scott worked the rift on both ends.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Love it or loathe it, there’s a reason Eat, Pray, Love struck a chord with so many.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Love him or loathe him, Teddy Park is all over this record.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Judging by the numbers, white wine lovers in the U.S. are loathe to give up their glass of Chardonnay.
    Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 5 July 2021
  • Which brings us to the great Chainsmokers dilemma: a lot of people kind of loathe them.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 May 2022
  • But the unions had come to loathe her for that work in particular.
    New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The boy is required to wear the mask all day, even outside at recess and is loathe to leave it off.
    Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Love ‘em or loathe them this promises to be a must-watch duel.
    Zack Jones, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • The whiter, more well-to-do Rochester Hills, where the family moved, in 1969, in the wake of the riots in Detroit, proved easy to loathe.
    Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Marinelli was loathe to use a high draft pick on the position.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Still, the West is loathe to do anything to advance Putin’s war effort.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Or why does this one employee loathe the idea of going back to the office?
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • So Cash sets out to do some crimes, in the company of Big Cat’s henchmen who loathe him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2024
  • These Super Bowl veterans both loved and loathed their time at the biggest game of the year.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • So he is resented by the center left and center right, even as he is loathed by the far left and the far right.
    Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • And so we’re left with a nation divided, the in-flight chatters and those who loathe them.
    Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Rich bad guys, often of the Russian kind, loathe him for his dogged reporting on the sources of their wealth.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 22 July 2022
  • Love them or loathe them, rental escooters have flooded the world’s largest cities.
    Wired, 8 July 2022
  • To save herself, she is forced to team up with Rufus, whom she’s loathed since childhood.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Of all of Petro’s appointees, Velásquez is perhaps the one most loathed by his enemies.
    Ken Silverstein, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Like many of Carrie’s suitors, Aidan is either loved or loathed by fans.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Love it or loathe it, there is no denying that social media has taken over the world.
    Chemi Katz, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Most of us are loathe to remove any of the color from our landscapes by cutting flowers.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • All of it was once loathed by conservatives in Texas and beyond.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020

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