How to Use love-hate in a Sentence

love-hate

adjective
  • Most of us have sort of a love-hate relationship with TV.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Growing up, Chris Goode had a love-hate relationship with the Paseo Stairs.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
  • Meanwhile, Daisy is in a love-hate triangle of her own making.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The locals have a love-hate relationship with the chickens.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Spain has a love-hate relationship with British tourists.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Kim plays Min-hui, who has held a love-hate relationship with Min-ja since childhood.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Aisha, who grew up poor, has a love-hate relationship with her hometown.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • That is the love-hate relationship between the Mexican fans and their team.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • So there's a weird sort of love-hate, push-pull, respect-degrading quality to the horror genre, which...
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
  • Riley Keough has a love-hate relationship with some of her tattoos.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But many also have a love-hate relationship with the United States Postal Service.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Throwing pottery on a wheel can be a love-hate relationship.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Chrissy Teigen is opening up about her love-hate relationship with Dancing with the Stars.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
  • He's always had a real love-hate relationship with Susie.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 May 2023
  • Cities are in a love-hate relationship with pickleball.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 17 July 2024
  • Here in this city near the Illinois border, where the summers swell with tourists from Chicagoland, the love-hate relationship with Wisconsin’s southern neighbor is strong.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Many of us have a love-hate relationship with self-help books, and for good reason—for a genre with great intentions (at least on paper), a few too many fad diets and get-well-quick schemes tend to steal the spotlight.
    — Grace McCarty, SELF, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In the context of sports, a love-hate relationship often veers closer to love than hate as one reflects on the greatness of an individual.
    — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The one-woman comedy show by Nicole Travolta (John Travolta‘s niece) tells the story of her love-hate relationship with credit cards.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • His love-hate relationship with bestie Kate Chastain kept many seasons afloat, especially when the two were at each other’s throats.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Here are two possible reasons why love-hate relationships form, according to the study.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Open seating helped Southwest become one of the nation’s most popular low-cost airlines, although customers have had a love-hate relationship with the free-for-all.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 26 July 2024
  • The risk of staying stuck in a love-hate job, without coming to some form of internal resolution or moving on, is sitting with a lot of uncomfortable feelings.
    — Dr. Gary McClain, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon's playful love-hate relationship goes way back.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Americans have a love-hate relationship with tax season.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Television Have a love-hate relationship with game culture?
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with car companies–and that sentiment has not improved.
    — Adam Hanft, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been a love-hate relationship for Hirsch, hitting a low point, when in 2015, the actor was involved in an unfortunate incident of assault against a Paramount executive.
    — Arianna Di Cori, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
  • That love-hate relationship with social media extends to purchases, too.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
  • Many websites these days have a love-hate relationship with Google, where Google brings them significant traffic but can also end up influencing how the site works, so it can be considered Google-friendly.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023

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