How to Use platonic love in a Sentence

platonic love

noun

• Their voices shined and the weight of platonic love took the story and performance to new heights.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• There have been some historic celebrity friendships that pass from mere pals to the pantheon of great platonic loves.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 22 Mar. 2017
• Kaling and Novak have been vocal about their now-platonic love for each other.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2022
• Since the idea of a platonic love story comes from your own lives, do your characters resemble you?
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• Schrager casts his relationship with Rubell as a sort of platonic love affair.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• For the holiday, the star and a group of friends got together in matching robes, boas and heart headbands to celebrate their friendships and platonic love.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• Several episodes explore platonic love, and a few toe the line between friendship and romance.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2019
• Katherine Heigl of rom-com royalty is back, only this new show is more about a platonic love story.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Smith's comedy sheds a light on the complications of romance and platonic love, and how dangerous mixing the two can be.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2017
• In the visuals for the single (written and directed by Alisa) the band opts to highlight the platonic love between the bandmates over the standard romance story.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 24 Mar. 2020
• The book is about police corruption, poverty, family, platonic love and the prison system.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• While Dramione may live on in another universe, the endearing crushes and platonic love between the two is still magical.
  — Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
• Summering is – among other things – a platonic love story between four friends.
  — Risa Sarachan, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The campaign celebrates love in its many forms from sisterly love, the love of a mother and child, platonic love, or romantically, everyone needs and desires to be loved.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• This fun, sweet novel beautifully captures the power of romantic and platonic love alike.
  — Emily Ables, Seventeen, 28 Dec. 2016
• One is that platonic love is somehow less important or meaningful than romantic love.
  — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• However, the show’s depiction of friendship – particularly that between Charlie and Tao – is challenging the idea of what platonic love can look like.
  — Chichi Offor, refinery29.com, 29 May 2022
• The other definition—pronounced rather differently—refers to God’s love, a love that is distinct from romantic love (eros) or platonic love (philia).
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• In 1925 Kansas, a teenage girl suffers an emotional breakdown following a platonic love affair.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The platonic love that develops between these two men does become critical later in the story, as their situation becomes more desperate.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• The concept of platonic love comes directly from director Nikole Beckwith's experiences with deep friendship.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
• For the uninitiated, February 13 is designated as a day to celebrate female friendship and platonic love shared between gal pals — fittingly called Galentine’s Day.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
• The result is a record that challenges the notion of experimental music’s emotional capability via the undeniable warmth of romantic, familial, and platonic love.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Nov. 2021
• Attraction, romantic love, platonic love and social connection all come with a specific mixture of hormones, but most involve some combination of dopamine, testosterone, estrogen, vasopressin and oxytocin.
  — Jeffrey Rediger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024