How to Use masochist in a Sentence

masochist

noun
  • The Barkley Marathons is a race only a masochist could love.
    Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • What kind of masochist would put chili and jalapenos on a brat in a pretzel bun at this hour?
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Frank's Solange is a tortured soul playing the masochist to Claire's sadistic games.
    Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 1 June 2018
  • In the corner was a large chair fit to be the throne of a king or a dictator or a masochist who enjoys cramps.
    Anthony Veasna So, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Quarantine is nothing if not a place for masochists to thrive.
    EW.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Krail, one of the Central Coast Section’s most successful coaches over the past 35 years, is no masochist.
    Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021
  • So here, for your pleasure, are his recipes for crispy pig ears, Flemish (i.e., all beer) beef stew, and, for you true masochists, blood sausage queso fundido.
    Josh Ozersky, Esquire, 27 Jan. 2014
  • The last thing any Bengals fan/chronicler/card-carrying masochist wants is to be Charlie Brown-ed.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 July 2021
  • There may be a few sadists floating around Albany, but Mr. Bharara’s appointment would require a full caucus of masochists.
    New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Within any sadomasochistic relationship, the masochist has a say in what’s being done to them.
    Yasmin Lajoie, refinery29.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Natasha Lee is the genius (masochist?) behind these disgusting pimple nails.
    Lauren Adhav, Cosmopolitan, 31 Oct. 2017
  • This is as if the masochists running the bar exam or the National Spelling Bee had invaded the national pastime.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Bint Aamir was no masochist, but there’s a masochistic element to Zuhour’s ruminations.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • Depression is a white supremacist, a malignant narcissist, a rape apologist, a gaslighter, Iago, a sadist, a masochist, a hot Lego underfoot, a mind made hell.
    Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Agent provocateurs place themselves in the center of it all as distractions and are typically masochists and anarchists who are just out wreaking havoc for the thrill or attempting to infiltrate a movement.
    Yesha Callahan, Essence, 30 May 2020
  • In the very wild story, Not-Adrian is depicted as being a masochist that loves being dominated by Not-Diane, whose whiteness has ruined the traditionally black firm.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • That impression of sweatlessness is the masochist’s ideal—and writing, many writers will tell you, is masochism, a torture and a torment, an exercise in mental brick-breaking that justifies itself in pursuit of the apt and elegant line.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Meet Hikari, an anime virtual wife, and Eisuke, a virtual boyfriend who plays to a masochist fantasy, these are products of a multi-million dollar industry that's sprung up in response to Japan's relationship crisis.
    Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The Jazz are for masochists only: Their offense is bound to suffer through really, really rough stretches while their formidable, long defense should consistently strangle the opposition.
    Ben Golliver, SI.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Recently our enemies were communists and liberals, now Americans are provoking masochists against us.
    Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Paris was producing existentialist literature, but London had Bacon, the artist of existentialist life, a reckless gambler and homosexual masochist.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 15 June 2018

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