How to Use codependence in a Sentence

codependence

noun

• And then for me, my codependence was my dad left me and my mom at a young age.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2021
• But few products illustrate the codependence quite like the soybean.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, Ethan and Harper begin to face the cracks in their own relationship, where their codependence veiled as closeness seem to push them further apart.
  — Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
• As the bubbles converge, their codependence is a fragile balance maintained through faith.
  — Danny Chau, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• For those of us who tend to anthropomorphize our cars, Hey Mercedes might lead to a whole new level of automotive codependence.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2020
• Before long, the two embark on a furtive relationship based on support, guidance, control and codependence.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• In the new season, Tuca and Bertie struggle with the extent to which their codependence prevents them from forming other emotional attachments.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
• The novels feel separated at birth; both are stories of enslavement, codependence, control of the future, and women whose will to sustain life is perverted by men.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Too much of her performance in this series, about two women whose codependence is built on various murders of husbands and boyfriends, current or former, is impossible.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 4 May 2020
• Now in its second year since the border was closed to nonessential travels, people have adapted to new realities amid a growing debate about what looms ahead for a region whose codependence and uniformity is now in question.
  — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
• Interpersonal dynamics in rock bands are legendary for their baroque complexity, but even by the accustomed standards, CCR was a study in fraternal and antagonistic codependence.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• But compared with Castorf’s gleefully baffling staging, which often abandoned coherent storytelling altogether, Schwarz’s is fairly straightforward in its account of the codependence and acrimony running through a family.
  — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024