How to Use love handles in a Sentence

love handles

plural noun
Definition of love handlesnext
  • Even the name’s a spoof, trading on the Spanish slang for love handles.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Inside the office, Martha lounged on a bench, all droopy eyes and love handles.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • She’s Sarah minus the love handles and hate-the-world attitude.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Jan. 2022
  • So all night, all night my left love handle kept popping.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Tired of having love handles or belly fat that just won't go away?
    — Mark Anderson, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The Bears offense is the doughy guy at the gym with the love handles, vowing to change but lacking the discipline to follow through.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Call it what you will: beer belly, love handles, gut, spare tire, or anything else.
    — Armin Brott, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Those extra strips of fabric would help make room for a bigger life, with or without the love handles.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The second goal was getting rid of stubborn fat from my waistline and hip area (love handles).
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Double that time for love handles, which require a treatment on each side.
    — Gina Way, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Among men, the waist—or love handles—are a persistent issue, as this tends to be one of the last and hardest places to shift fat during weight loss.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 June 2022
  • Adipose fat, such as the love handles, can act as energy deposits.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Losing body fat is a process that is equally distributed in your body—in other words, 1,000 reps of side bends will not burn away the fat around your love handles.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Your love handles lie on top of the obliques, which are a very specific group of abdominal muscles.
    — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Simply counting steps isn’t going to increase anyone’s cardio or melt away the love handles.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Losing love handles, like bodybuilding, is a game of illusion.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Most assume shapewear is just for women, but the men’s version—vests, T-shirts and briefs in stretchy synthetic blends that promise to flatten love handles and firm glutes—is becoming more common.
    — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Think of it as especially effective for areas that are tricky to diet and exercise away, i.e. love handles, arm fat, and double chins.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2019
  • And so, bulge by bulge, lump by lump, my body grew all the infamous mounds and blobs our culture likes to invent insulting nicknames for: a muffin top, moobs and — most especially — love handles.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • There was no winter lethargy, no gaining weight between skin and muscle to insulate from the cold, no comforting post-holiday belly rolls and love handles.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022
  • During the procedure, the device is strapped onto trouble areas, most often the stomach, love handles, and thighs, and alternates between intense heat, which is absorbed by the body's fatty tissue, and brief cooldowns.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 9 July 2019
  • However, researchers are attempting to bring it back with the patch, ultimately leading to more fat being burned and love handles disappearing.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2017

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