How to Use obsess in a Sentence

obsess

verb

• You need to stop obsessing and just deal with the problem.
• The war obsesses him—he talks about nothing else.
• North West is obsessed with the 2000s, just like the rest of us.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2023
• There’s plenty of time to obsess over the future and the past.
  — Jessamyn Stanley, SELF, 7 Sep. 2020
• Her parents would later tell me she was obsessed with the city of Paris and the way the city looked in the evening.
  — Ismael Estrada, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• The text is plain: Viewers are ready for a new show to obsess over.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 25 June 2020
• But in 2021, the streamer plans to up the ante with even more new projects for movie lovers to obsess over.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Maybe the children would be as obsessed with the child as politicians were.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The thing is the normal people aren't obsessed with Trump like you guys are.
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• There will be some fans, no doubt, who obsess over that.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• Scroll on for some of our favorite takes on the trend, and prepare to obsess.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2020
• Should one be obsessed with a new kitchen gadget or a new shade of paint?
  — Gina Joseph, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Teixeira was obsessed with war and guns in high school.
  — Mark Scheffler, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• Those who obsess over free speech, the thinking goes, are missing the point.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• As a kid, he was obsessed with blimps—not Billboard charts.
  — Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 24 July 2024
• So, why then does my brain still obsess over the idea of a perfect wedding?
  — Nayanika, refinery29.com, 28 June 2021
• This was the mid-nineteen-eighties, and Wiman was obsessed with Wall Street-style wealth.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023?
  — Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2023
• Steve Jobs is the most famous example of a founder who was obsessed with the front line.
  — Nirav Tolia, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
• But one question home cooks don’t need to obsess over: the best oil for frying.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 30 Nov. 2021
• Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The whole world is obsessed with Pickleball which is what makes this set such a great idea.
  — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
• Also around this time, my whole house was obsessed with K-pop.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• My son was obsessed with this wannabe Mister Rogers–type guy on YouTube.
  — Jonathan Goldstein, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• In a narrative way, I was obsessed with the order of the songs, what song came after what.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 12 May 2023
• A lot of other brands are obsessed with the main character.
  — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Donald Trump isn’t the only one obsessed with crowd-size.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
• Chris Klimek, host: You’ve been obsessed with Abraham Lincoln, his life and his death for most of your life.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• And politicians who obsess about the past are not in touch with the American people.
  — NBC News, 21 Aug. 2022
• These are the heel trends our editors are currently obsessing over.
  — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024