How to Use love-hate in a Sentence
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Most of us have sort of a love-hate relationship with TV.
— Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023 -
Growing up, Chris Goode had a love-hate relationship with the Paseo Stairs.
— J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024 -
The locals have a love-hate relationship with the chickens.
— Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Spain has a love-hate relationship with British tourists.
— Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Aisha, who grew up poor, has a love-hate relationship with her hometown.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024 -
That is the love-hate relationship between the Mexican fans and their team.
— Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 11 July 2023 -
So there's a weird sort of love-hate, push-pull, respect-degrading quality to the horror genre, which...
— Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024 -
Riley Keough has a love-hate relationship with some of her tattoos.
— Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024 -
But many also have a love-hate relationship with the United States Postal Service.
— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024 -
Throwing pottery on a wheel can be a love-hate relationship.
— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Chrissy Teigen is opening up about her love-hate relationship with Dancing with the Stars.
— Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024 -
He's always had a real love-hate relationship with Susie.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 May 2023 -
Cities are in a love-hate relationship with pickleball.
— Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 17 July 2024 -
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with self-help books, and for good reason—for a genre with great intentions (at least on paper), a few too many fad diets and get-well-quick schemes tend to steal the spotlight.
— Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Dec. 2023 -
In the context of sports, a love-hate relationship often veers closer to love than hate as one reflects on the greatness of an individual.
— oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023 -
The one-woman comedy show by Nicole Travolta (John Travolta‘s niece) tells the story of her love-hate relationship with credit cards.
— Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023 -
Here are two possible reasons why love-hate relationships form, according to the study.
— Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 -
Open seating helped Southwest become one of the nation’s most popular low-cost airlines, although customers have had a love-hate relationship with the free-for-all.
— Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024 -
The risk of staying stuck in a love-hate job, without coming to some form of internal resolution or moving on, is sitting with a lot of uncomfortable feelings.
— Dr. Gary McClain, TIME, 15 July 2024 -
Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon's playful love-hate relationship goes way back.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023 -
Americans have a love-hate relationship with tax season.
— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Television Have a love-hate relationship with game culture?
— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023 -
Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with car companies–and that sentiment has not improved.
— Adam Hanft, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023 -
It’s been a love-hate relationship for Hirsch, hitting a low point, when in 2015, the actor was involved in an unfortunate incident of assault against a Paramount executive.
— Arianna Di Cori, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023 -
That love-hate relationship with social media extends to purchases, too.
— Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024 -
Many websites these days have a love-hate relationship with Google, where Google brings them significant traffic but can also end up influencing how the site works, so it can be considered Google-friendly.
— Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Pissarro’s relationship with his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, emerges as perhaps the earliest round in the now perpetual love-hate dance between artists and dealers, with the painter first grateful for the money, then suspicious of the cut.
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023 -
Several of his characters exhibit a love-hate relationship with their academic posts.
— Beverly Gage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021 -
An angry Angelique vows revenge and curses Barnabas into becoming a vampire, which precipitates a volatile love-hate relationship that lasts over multiple centuries.
— Valerie Wu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023 -
The inspiration, Schulz said, came from an earlier survey about self-checkout, a millennial retailing phenomenon with which many consumers sustain a love-hate relationship.
— Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
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