How to Use love-hate in a Sentence

love-hate

adjective

• Most of us have sort of a love-hate relationship with TV.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
• The locals have a love-hate relationship with the chickens.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• That is the love-hate relationship between the Mexican fans and their team.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
• But many also have a love-hate relationship with the United States Postal Service.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Throwing pottery on a wheel can be a love-hate relationship.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• He's always had a real love-hate relationship with Susie.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Many of us have a love-hate relationship with self-help books, and for good reason—for a genre with great intentions (at least on paper), a few too many fad diets and get-well-quick schemes tend to steal the spotlight.
  — Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Dec. 2023
• In the context of sports, a love-hate relationship often veers closer to love than hate as one reflects on the greatness of an individual.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• The one-woman comedy show by Nicole Travolta (John Travolta‘s niece) tells the story of her love-hate relationship with credit cards.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon's playful love-hate relationship goes way back.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Americans have a love-hate relationship with tax season.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Television Have a love-hate relationship with game culture?
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with car companies–and that sentiment has not improved.
  — Adam Hanft, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• It’s been a love-hate relationship for Hirsch, hitting a low point, when in 2015, the actor was involved in an unfortunate incident of assault against a Paramount executive.
  — Arianna Di Cori, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• That love-hate relationship with social media extends to purchases, too.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
• Many websites these days have a love-hate relationship with Google, where Google brings them significant traffic but can also end up influencing how the site works, so it can be considered Google-friendly.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• Pissarro’s relationship with his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, emerges as perhaps the earliest round in the now perpetual love-hate dance between artists and dealers, with the painter first grateful for the money, then suspicious of the cut.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Several of his characters exhibit a love-hate relationship with their academic posts.
  — Beverly Gage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• An angry Angelique vows revenge and curses Barnabas into becoming a vampire, which precipitates a volatile love-hate relationship that lasts over multiple centuries.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• The advertising industry is in a love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence.
  — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• Professional football has always had a love-hate relationship with similar celebrations.
  — Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024