How to Use Cupid in a Sentence

Cupid

noun
  • Does the Lucifer star have any plans with his wife for Cupid’s special day?
    — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 2024-02-14
  • Child: Cupids in Renaissance art and one’s own—warts and wonder and all.
    — airmail.news, 2025-03-08
  • Cupid did their job, though, and the two have been together since the summer of 2023.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Aug. 2025
  • From Erykah Badu's lips to Cupid's ears, anything is possible.
    — USA TODAY, 2023-07-30
  • Figures like Venus and Cupid make appearances in scenes that champion love and life.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-12-13
  • Hill said Cupid had a volunteer in the shelter’s system waiting to meet him but he was killed on Monday.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2025-03-06
  • The dress was edged with arrows from Cupid’s bow, and covered with pink peony illustrations and dripping petals.
    — Merle Ginsberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-05-06
  • Instead of a mad dash to the store after work, plan ahead with these delicious confections that even Aphrodite and Cupid are sure to approve of.
    — Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 2024-02-01
  • With Valentine’s Day in sight, many are hoping to be struck with one of Cupid’s magical arrows and find their perfect match.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2024-06-12
  • Rihanna is another beloved example of a pronounced Cupid’s bow.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 2024-10-16
  • Eros, known as Cupid in Roman mythology, was the ancient Greek god of love and desire, often depicted as a winged youth with a bow and arrow.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 2024-12-12
  • Here are some fun ideas for celebrating the official festival of Venus and Cupid this Valentine’s Day.
    — Laura Ness, The Mercury News, 2025-02-02
  • After a year of moseying around each other, divine intervention skewered us better than Cupid’s arrow, and we were brought together.
    — Jillian Salas, Los Angeles Times, 2024-06-28
  • The technology has been discovered, at a place called the Love Institute, for couples to determine whether Cupid’s aim is true.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 2023-11-01
  • Findings have included some extremely rare items, from a rare Roman-era Cupid figurine to a variety of pottery, jewelry, and brooches.
    — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 2024-05-16
  • Rather than just hemming the philtrum, surgeons can finesse the peaks of the Cupid’s bow or roll out the upper lip to reveal more of the red vermilion and allow a sliver of the incisors to show when the lips are slightly parted.
    — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 2023-06-08
  • Inspired by the love story between the Greek gods Psyche and Eros (a.k.a. Cupid), the compulsively sniffable scent has a heart of cottony musk.
    — Jenny Berg, Allure, 2025-02-08
  • Appearing as an often chubby baby but holding a deadly weapon, the bow and arrow, Cupid was the child of Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god of war, representing the conflict of desire, Christensen wrote.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2024-05-10
  • Cupid remembers a pivotal moment during the social justice movement, sparked by the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025

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