How to Use infatuation in a Sentence

infatuation

noun

• All the while, Oh and Comer’s slow dance of antagonism crossed with infatuation is some of the most thrilling acting in recent television memory.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• My Taylor-and-Travis infatuation felt like the gooey, swelling in your throat kind of good.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• As with many hunters, my infatuation with Africa took root at a young age.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
• Also undamaged: the text of the 19th-century love poem that wraps around the walls of the vault like the ivy of infatuation.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Uh, and at the time that the bust was revealed, this infatuation manifested in a few ways.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
• As for Anakin, well, Obi-Wan had known of his former Padawan’s infatuation with the senator for a while now.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
• The first source of Durkee’s infatuation is a portrait miniature of a lovelorn courtier by the Elizabethan painter Nicholas Hilliard.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• For some reason, over the past four months, my feelings for Kendra have grown into an infatuation.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Some point to the lagging attendance of the Golden Knights, who are a quarter of the way through their fifth season, as proof that the infatuation is beginning to wear off.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Dec. 2021
• At the very least the Cowboys wouldn’t have had to spend so much time flirting with Odell Beckham Jr., an ongoing infatuation.
  — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
• In fact, headaches and heartaches abound for those that decide to combine all their finances during their infatuation phase.
  — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• At least a part of this infatuation is the fact that the reality of girlhood is anything but Barbie-ish.
  — Zoe Yu, Longreads, 28 May 2024
• Set in Dublin, the story, based on Sally Rooney's 2017 novel of the same name, will spotlight infatuation, lust and love, and question where the boundaries between each.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• His infatuation with Spain was like an acute crush that colored every aspect of his art.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• But as the infatuation with nonstick cookware started to fade, people started singing the praises of cast iron once again.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
• The story follows Jade, a teenage girl with a gruesome infatuation with slasher films.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Oct. 2022
• For his part, Cottingham describes Weiss in terms that sound almost like love — or some form of infatuation.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2022
• Scholars are sure to question the notion that the country's crown princess used Franklin Roosevelt's infatuation with her to lure him into joining the Allies.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• We were accused of puppy love, infatuation, and naiveté, as if these traits were cardinal sins.
  — Genevieve Plunkett, refinery29.com, 14 July 2021
• Leto cited an infatuation with the city’s iconic landmark dating back to his youth.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Bottom line: Love, infatuation, and attraction are all normal and healthy parts of life.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 4 Apr. 2023
• Which brings us to the Lakers’ sudden infatuation with Dan Hurley.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
• Despite their rapturous infatuation with one another, Roberts called off the couple’s nuptials just 3 days before the pair was set to walk down the aisle.
  — Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 20 June 2023
• Recurring themes on Life Till Bones include infatuation and, just as often, heartbreak and the hurt that precedes it.
  — Ben Salmon, SPIN, 9 Aug. 2024
• During the pre-draft process, the Cavs were privately hoping rumors about Houston’s infatuation with Jalen Green would come true.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
• One afternoon, around a year after my father’s death, my mother had enough of my infatuation with dark tales.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Her most personal album yet documents the life cycle of a relationship, from the wooziness of infatuation to the blur of heartbreak, and finds self-love at the end of the rainbow.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• But the Chinese infatuation with it poses a threat to future economic prospects.
  — Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Phil himself is given the shortest one, a childhood memory of his first infatuation with a classmate, Hanorah, as a 10-year-old in his native Irish village.
  — Elena Lappin, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• But Senna’s infatuation with domestic artifice is also personal.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024