How to Use codependent in a Sentence

codependent

adjective

• But if attention is the junk, the media is the junkie's codependent junkie girlfriend.
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• Her partner in codependent crime is Platt’s Amos Klobuchar, head of drama.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 13 July 2023
• Louise is able to mend the dress for her, which sparks the beginning of their dangerously codependent friendship.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• By then the seeds of a mature, non-codependent relationship were sprouting.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
• One, rather utopian, is to persuade the clubs to work more collectively, to understand that growth is a shared endeavor and that their success is codependent.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• That’s a very good suggestion for helping this codependent niece recognize the value her aunt has provided to her.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2023
• At the start of the novel, Jane is coming off a toxic codependent relationship with her cheating filmmaker boyfriend.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• After years of being codependent, Page says he’s joined some dating apps and is resisting the urge to jump into relationships.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• New Yorkers, briefly, had seen themselves as members of a fragile, codependent collective, and that helplessness bred a rare willingness to help others and to be helped in turn.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• That is, until the trio takes a road trip that defines Andy’s true intentions, tests the siblings’ allegiance, and makes Krystal and Donny rethink their codependent lifestyle.
  — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
• To find the most loathsome prey in modern-day New Orleans, he's joined a support group for people in abusive, codependent relationships; the bad boyfriends described in these meetings swiftly end up on the menu.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
• Appalachia, which has been ground into codependent poverty by the coal industry over the course of a century, has been declining, in coal output and employment, for decades.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 July 2019
• Because of the cultural shift that happened between the time Sondheim wrote the musical and now, both Charly and Mary’s disappointment in Frank can seem petty and codependent.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
• Parachute is set in New York City and follows a young woman with an eating disorder and addiction issues and her codependent partner.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Through it all, the US and China remain economically codependent.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
• In both situations, the men hold the power. Binge drinking and drug use are also widespread among the employees, and long hours working in close quarters lead to unhealthy, codependent relationships.
  — Elisabeth Sherman, Glamour, 15 July 2019
• To be codependent, according to some TikTok talking heads, advice columnists, celebrities, and mental-health advocates, is to care too much, try to control others, and be terrible with boundaries.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2024
• Strangely codependent rivals, each is obsessed with his place in history; each is uneasily aware they will be tethered together in posterity; each is willing to sell out the other in a nanosecond.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Berto Fernández is excellent as Diana’s well-meaning but codependent husband, Dan.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
• In a show that centers on a twisted relationship between brilliant, codependent twins, Rebecca Parker and Susan also play an intriguing duo.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes, narcissistic abuse is part of a codependent relationship.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 1 May 2023
• Ultimately, the vampire couple is, then, the most disastrous and dysfunctional example of the codependent relationship.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2024
• The relationship between writer and editor—alchemical, fraught, frequently codependent—is the fascinating subject of this warm-hearted documentary by Lizzie Gottlieb, the daughter of the late, legendary editor Robert Gottlieb.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
• Fortunately, season three leans much harder on the former and evolves into a deeply satisfying season of television that finds fresh friction and insight within their codependent relationship.
  — Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024