How to Use sapphic in a Sentence

sapphic

adjective

• Thus, the drink of choice last weekend in my small sapphic home was a negroni.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2022
• In You is a novella-length small-town, sapphic, friends-to-lovers story.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2022
• Set at a vaguely sapphic sleepover, Eilish sings about moving on from an ex who, frankly, sounds like a scrub.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 2 June 2021
• Aguilera asked after a sapphic moment with one of her dancers.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2024
• Unlike most of the movies on this list, the plot of Booksmart doesn’t focus on the WLW character’s journey to accept her sapphic nature.
  — Rebecca Caplan, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• Big sapphic energy reverberates from the stage to the crowd and back again in an infinite loop.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• This sapphic coming-of-age rom-com is a clever delight with comfortingly low stakes and just the right amount of bite to keep things interesting.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
• But nothing in Field’s film—a biopic of a fictional person, a sapphic Blanchett movie without the steam, a #MeToo story without a clear moral—should be taken at face value.
  — Elaina Patton, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2022
• This is the second most fanfic-sounding backstory in Twilight, but it’s the one with the most sapphic undertones.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Cruz plays opposite Milena Smit in the sapphic film about two women bonded by motherhood and tragedy.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• The 26-year-old actor's shirtless look spawned endless takes, many of them focusing on the sapphic undertone of his ensemble: Our bad!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2022
• Families on the street are combusting as secrets, from infidelity to young sapphic love, are exposed on front lawns and crowded events.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
• A number of main and supporting characters are people of color, while a sapphic relationship sits at the heart of the sweeping narrative.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2022
• River is stubborn, but her voice grows noticeably smaller and more frail as the interrogation wears on and every phrase gets turned over in dung-beetle claws for its sapphic overtones.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• There is, as plenty of scholars have detailed, a latent sapphic energy between Mrs. Danvers and the late Rebecca.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2020
• The concluding film goes back to colonial New England in order to show the origins of the witch wreaking havoc for generations of Shadysiders, revealed to be an innocent girl persecuted for her sapphic desires.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 16 July 2021
• And the associations between sapphic love and bloodthirsty villains stuck.
  — NBC News, 30 Oct. 2021
• Alban debuts with this swoony sapphic romance about two young Victorian women who decide to Parent Trap their widowed parents instead of seeking matches for themselves (and end up falling in love along the way).
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• However, Alex did not have her sapphic happily ever after.
  — Gabriela Ramos Tavárez, refinery29.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• This is a sapphic, contemporary romance with characters in their 30s and 40s grappling with past toxic relationships, loss of parents, and anxiety about feeling directionless in life.
  — Novel Neighbor, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• From daunting media depictions of sapphic heartbreak through to familial and societal homophobia, there are lots of reasons why lesbian breakups can be particularly difficult or isolating.
  — Amelia Abraham, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Thus, the drink of choice last weekend in my small sapphic home was a negroni.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2022
• In You is a novella-length small-town, sapphic, friends-to-lovers story.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2022
• Set at a vaguely sapphic sleepover, Eilish sings about moving on from an ex who, frankly, sounds like a scrub.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 2 June 2021
• Aguilera asked after a sapphic moment with one of her dancers.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2024
• Unlike most of the movies on this list, the plot of Booksmart doesn’t focus on the WLW character’s journey to accept her sapphic nature.
  — Rebecca Caplan, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• Big sapphic energy reverberates from the stage to the crowd and back again in an infinite loop.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• This sapphic coming-of-age rom-com is a clever delight with comfortingly low stakes and just the right amount of bite to keep things interesting.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
• But nothing in Field’s film—a biopic of a fictional person, a sapphic Blanchett movie without the steam, a #MeToo story without a clear moral—should be taken at face value.
  — Elaina Patton, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2022
• This is the second most fanfic-sounding backstory in Twilight, but it’s the one with the most sapphic undertones.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024