How to Use besotted in a Sentence

besotted

adjective

• Can't wait to see what kind of wedding the besotted pair dreams up post-pandemic.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2020
• All across its 375 square feet swarm birds, masks and maenads—the besotted followers of the god Dionysus.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• When news of their engagement broke, the besotted couple was enjoying a break in the Bahamas.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 July 2018
• As one of Hollywood’s most legendary heartthrobs, Depp enjoys a large and besotted fan base.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2022
• Her infidelity turns on the proposition of Howard, a besotted businessman who offers her $1,000 to sleep with him for just one night.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• But Americans, freed of royal rule for more than 200 years, have come to develop a besotted regard for the spectacle of royalty.
  — Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• As an art critic who happens to be hopelessly besotted with soccer, all this fascinates me.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
• But the area has seen a flurry of sales in the last couple of years, as longtime residents have died or aged out of the neighborhood and besotted buyers like Ari Heckman have leapt at the opportunity to get a foothold there.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 16 May 2019
• But by this time, Henry was already deeply besotted with his own mistress Jane Seymour; he would be betrothed to her the day after Boleyn’s execution.
  — Suyin Haynes, Time, 2 Dec. 2019
• Daisy Patel had no issues with besotted lovers hiding away in a toilet cubicle for a little covert tongue gymnastics.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 29 Mar. 2021
• Bénédicte’s racing ambitions, meanwhile, prove secondary to her function as Gino’s besotted lover (though one pre-race locker room quickie inspires her to come in third).
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• Will is pursued by a besotted friend who plays provocatively with binary conceptions of gender.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• Put simply, the United States does have choices in the Middle East, even if most members of our hidebound and war-besotted foreign policy establishment remain willfully blind to them.
  — Andrew Bacevich, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2019
• Andreas lives in a deeply religious Bavarian hamlet with Claudia, his besotted, church-frequenting, apron dress wearing wife.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• Twitter users became besotted with its imagery, and seemingly within three to five minutes, sent their feral hog jokes running across timelines everywhere.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
• Surprisingly, in our own emoji-besotted culture, there’s been something of an academic competition to find the world’s oldest ancestor of the smiley face emoji.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• And unsurprisingly, even Harry's wife still looks totally besotted with him.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
• Only Marian Paroo, the local librarian and music teacher, can save the besotted town from its infatuation with Harold.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024