How to Use loveless in a Sentence

loveless

adjective
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  • Loveless lives on a block where six of the 15 houses are now sober homes.
    — Joanie Cox Henry, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 May 2017
  • The Deep Ellum club will have four shows for lovestruck folks and one for the loveless.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • We have been married for 14 years, the last six of which have been sexless and loveless.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The present tense: to take a loveless path is to court a purple-blue emptiness, like a disco or a grotto.
    — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Loveless also her team lone goal in the Knights (7-8) semifinal loss to Lake Norman.
    — Jay Edwards, charlotteobserver, 1 May 2017
  • In short, too many people find themselves in a loveless relationship with the app.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Moreover, for a new dashboard, the integration of the head-up display is loveless.
    — Jens Meiners, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.
    — TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2020
  • There is a clairvoyante, Madame Sosostris, and another seer, the blind Tiresias, with whom Odysseus once conversed in the underworld, and who now watches two loveless urban dwellers making love.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In the popular imagination, there has long been one (very sad) picture of Emily Dickinson's personal life: that of a loveless shut-in.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Getting hitched while either of these planets is tracking backwards is a surefire way to end up in a loveless, sexless union, according to Miller, founder of Astrology Zone.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
  • The disappointment from feeling trapped in a loveless relationship with your employer can also lead to a messy public split.
    — Diane Brady, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • And yet My Bloody Valentine’s stature continues to grow, with Loveless serving as a deathless testimonial.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2011
  • In 1947 Maine, Grace Holland is the mother of two toddlers in a dutiful but loveless — and borderline abusive — marriage to taciturn Gene, a highway surveyor.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2017
  • They’re done with their loveless working relationship, and neither is willing to continue faking it.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Virginia and Alice Madden, impoverished by the death of their father, are growing old together in a genteel boardinghouse, a fate their sister Monica has been spared thanks only to a loveless marriage.
    — WSJ, 19 Mar. 2017
  • In the chapter about the actor, these details will include his thalassophobia and his various chemical dependencies, which the girlfriend will theorize stem from a loveless childhood.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • But Inni’s life itself is less convincing, given Ms. Stridsberg’s decision to portray it as completely loveless and miserable.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Kyung, a Korean-American, grew up financially comfortable — surrounded by tutors, music lessons and other markers of success — but in loveless, unaffectionate surroundings.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Loveless, Zvyagintsev's third Cannes competition entry, is produced by longtime producing partner Alexander Rodnyansky.
    — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017

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