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
• Growing up, Chris Goode had a love-hate relationship with the Paseo Stairs.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
• The locals have a love-hate relationship with the chickens.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• Spain has a love-hate relationship with British tourists.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Aisha, who grew up poor, has a love-hate relationship with her hometown.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
• That is the love-hate relationship between the Mexican fans and their team.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
• So there's a weird sort of love-hate, push-pull, respect-degrading quality to the horror genre, which...
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
• Riley Keough has a love-hate relationship with some of her tattoos.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Chrissy Teigen is opening up about her love-hate relationship with Dancing with the Stars.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• He's always had a real love-hate relationship with Susie.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Cities are in a love-hate relationship with pickleball.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 17 July 2024
• Here in this city near the Illinois border, where the summers swell with tourists from Chicagoland, the love-hate relationship with Wisconsin’s southern neighbor is strong.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Here are two possible reasons why love-hate relationships form, according to the study.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Open seating helped Southwest become one of the nation’s most popular low-cost airlines, although customers have had a love-hate relationship with the free-for-all.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
• The risk of staying stuck in a love-hate job, without coming to some form of internal resolution or moving on, is sitting with a lot of uncomfortable feelings.
  — Dr. Gary McClain, TIME, 15 July 2024
• 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
• Policy changes America has a cyclical love-hate relationship with drugs, and there are unanticipated consequences to society’s approach to any drug.
  — Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025