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
  • That means about a third of the people who live in Alex Jones’ own hometown loathe him.
    Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Toss in the fact that Democrats loathe him, and the ambitious 40-year-old has the résumé for a bright future in the GOP.
    The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Among those who loathe sharks is the forty-fifth President of the United States.
    Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • 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
  • The people who used to admire him — the working people of New York — now loathe him.
    refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
  • 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
  • All things must come to an end, and love it or loathe it, hit show The Big Bang Theory is one of those things.
    Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2018
  • How does a child learn self-loathing for racial purposes?
    Karen R. Long, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The reason is that shaming can lead to more defensiveness or self-loathing on the part of the shamed.
    Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • Yet Democrats have been the party most publicly wringing their hands about the threat Stein and others pose, loathe to relive their past traumas.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Between the lines: Trump and Obama loathe each other, and the attacks between them veer into race-baiting and schoolyard taunts.
    Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024

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