How to Use obsessed in a Sentence

obsessed

adjective
  • Even the 2-year-old's obsessed with that and wants to watch that all the time.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • She’s obsessed with the why of things and won’t just jump because she’s told to.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The night did have a lot of hoops to get through since the paparazzi was overtly obsessed with the two of them at the time.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 20 July 2025
  • But then there is the guy who’s obsessed with that orange prize.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Sue lands the fitness job, and the town becomes obsessed with her.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
  • We're obsessed with the white starbursts and clear beads of builder gel for a playful look.
    — Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 31 July 2025
  • But hey, there are worst places than Paris for your kid to become obsessed with.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 2 July 2025
  • Comments Nineties kids are kind of obsessed with twins.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In the months that followed, Calvin became obsessed with our new game.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Build out, blend, and become obsessed with the results.
    — Sarah Han, Allure, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Build out, blend, and become obsessed with the results.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 18 July 2024
  • Are the bugs real or the product of Chef’s obsessed, paranoid mind?
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Bakos became obsessed with the machine, watching the tape snake around from reel to reel.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Enter the Simms Pursuit, which I am deeply obsessed with.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
  • And like Katherine in the film, she’s just become so driven and so obsessed.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Anyone on your list who’s obsessed with the royals will be proud to own a bottle.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In gathering wardrobe items, a few things about the obsessed woman came to mind.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • With his dad’s coaching, CJ became obsessed with the sport.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • She’s obsessed with being the first to wear, try, watch and buy what’s going viral.
    — Sarah Maberry, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • Throughout our trip, we were completely obsessed with chai, and he was known to make the best chai in Jaipur.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In the story, an obsessed youth breaks into the home of a writer called Mishima.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Early on he became obsessed with the organ, and with the sounds that the church organist was able to draw out of it.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But the joke turns into a nightmare when the obsessed Téo kidnaps her and takes her on a road trip across Rio de Janeiro.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024
  • She’s obsessed with finding tools for the home that balance form and function.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • When people become obsessed with it, that says as much about them and their world as the thing itself.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This year’s slate is truly a gift for anyone who is still obsessed with the pop culture of the early aughts.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Students also learn why teens and adults alike are so obsessed with the series.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Amid all the pressure, Nichols became obsessed with her weight and with food intake.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • In fact, at one point, Octavia Margaret was worried that Estelle was too obsessed with comics and ripped all her comics in half.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Lacy has mastered a kind of low-key fame, in which his fans are legitimately obsessed with him, and the music’s always good enough to make a splash in the mainstream — enough for him to get invited to fashion shows in Paris.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025

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