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.
• Content to me starts with an obsessive focus on the users.
  — Aashish Chopra, Quartz India, 10 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Some might even call their love for these places obsessive, or at least that's what one dog proved in a viral video.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
• Pawlowski urges parents not to be obsessive about where the items go.
  — Jolie Kerr, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• And then, there were the obsessive, protective fans known as Swifties.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
• The ultramarathon is home to the gutsy eccentric; the marathon is home to the Type-A obsessive.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• An obsessive protector of rock’s past could hold the key to its future.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• Then there’s the most frequent object of obsessive news stress: polls.
  — Arianna Huffington, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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 rules are typical for these trying times, but the number of signs is obsessive.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2020
• The rules were typical for these trying times, but the number of signs was obsessive.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• The 1% have a strong sense of self and an obsessive focus on purpose combined with results.
  — Paul Prior, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• More than a few were obsessive Zappa fans who hoped to gain access to his fabled vaults.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The obsessive urge to re-enact your own life, but perfectly, through your child.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 19 June 2020
• The ground floor, especially, conjures the thrill of the bazaar and, with it, an obsessive desire to collect.
  — Reggie Nadelson, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Here’s a tale of obsessive planners, who stave off the apocalypse with stickers and binders.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 9 Oct. 2020
• Americans are obsessive about crisp skin; the French aren't.
  — TheWeek, 17 May 2020
• Leo July 23 – August 22 Your efforts to make progress on your to-do list may be obsessive at the moment.
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
• Saunders is a research obsessive who can recite on a dime the weights of his fabrics, the precise color of a dye, and the exact length of a seam.
  — Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
• In other words, if a team hones in on an almost obsessive drive to improve, the outcomes will take care of themselves.
  — Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2024
• And yet the fundamentals that guide her column are all here: New Yorkers who live with verve and bring their highly specific, sometimes obsessive sensibility to their homes.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 26 Dec. 2024
• From a busy subreddit to a secret world of obsessive home and professional chefs to in-demand artisan carbon steel craftsmen who sell their wares by raffle ticket, the dedication and appreciation to carbon steel runs deep.
  — Jordan Michelman, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025