How to Use obsessive in a Sentence

obsessive

adjective

• Many dancers are obsessive about their weight.
• He is an obsessive workaholic who never stops thinking about his job.
• The new therapy is supposed to help people control their obsessive thoughts.
• One way is to foreground your obsessive commitment to the role—but even that can strike a false note.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• At the close of the first video, Tyla speeds off into the night after a long day of being trailed in her car by an obsessive ex.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
• The company has an obsessive dedication to its craft, down to the food the dairy cows eat.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
• Most of it was chalked up to being a first-time head coach who can be obsessive about every detail.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2021
• The 1% have a strong sense of self and an obsessive focus on purpose combined with results.
  — Paul Prior, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• There is the obsessive search for a vessel, a form that will hold a filmic/poetic future, in all of Graham’s work.
  — Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Her dispute by mail with her landlord was epic and obsessive.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Those phones are meant for people who are more obsessive over some features.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• An obsessive quail hunter, Pickens designed and managed the ranch with upland birds in mind, and it’s been called a quail mecca by some.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
• For someone who spends an obsessive amount of time looking at any new addition to my face—Is that a new pore?
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2020
• All these works — even the obsessive and eerie ones — feel somehow exultant.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• Sunspot is known for their obsessive attention to detail, and this shirt is spun from some of the finest, most long-lasting cotton fibers on the market.
  — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• Much of this has to do with the film’s obsessive focus on delivering for its hardest-core fan base.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Good classes are not recalled in the same obsessive detail as bad ones because good classes are not eventful in the same way.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• Hence the nearly obsessive time and thought devoted to perhaps the most unpredictable aspect of the sport.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• But kinky, horny, grotesque, obsessive, meticulous, cruel — those are all good to go.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• Anderson is aware of the obsessive interest in her ’90s style.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
• Bacall plays a Broadway star whose avid fan base includes an obsessive Michael Biehn.
  — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• One of the most important came from her obsessive desire to get rid of her monthly mortgage payment.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Honda cars gained a foothold in the US through an obsessive focus on fuel economy.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• Stephen Carter can be obsessive: about clothes, vintage audio equipment, and chicories.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The formal definition of this condition is an obsessive use of your phone with a lack of self-control.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 July 2022
• If my inner rhythm won, I was tortured by the tempo of my own obsessive brain; if my parents’ arguing won, I was trapped by fear.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
• The goal was to try to curb obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Harris was known to be demanding and obsessive about details.
  — Hank Tucker, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• When Shams is targeted by an obsessive attacker, they are forced to escape to the capital city of Tunis.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024