How to Use amour in a Sentence

amour

noun
  • Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Paris The capital of amour lives up to its name, at least for traveling ladies.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Their relationship is an ‘amour fou,’ a crazy love between two outsiders from different worlds.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Williams compared his departure to being dumped by a longtime girlfriend, and in that regard, his new amour is like his ex's good friend.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
  • David Parnes and Adriana Abnosi tied the knot in the country of amour on Sunday.
    — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2017
  • Eileen has been, up to this point, a bruised slice-of-life drama, a dingy-retro period piece, and possibly a romance just waiting to rev its amour fou engine.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation.
    — Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Thanks to Madame Pazargadi’s amour for her students and the French language, the French wedding has grown each year.
    — Andrea Mills, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2017
  • This is a tale of amour fou, in which lust tramples everything in its path – family, respectability, and ultimately sanity.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Wearing a bold floral print dress, Clarkson flawlessly captured the track’s come hither arrangement and Morris’ ready-for-amour vibe.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 June 2022
  • Modern yet infused with traditional design codes like tailoring, Moore’s look was augmented by her mon amour pumps by Aquazzura.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The movie doesn’t want to be a four-alarm funeral pyre but a tragic romance, presenting Amy through the prism of the amour fou that put her into a tailspin and fueled her triple-platinum second album.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
  • But while the bucks and does of Cook and Lake Counties actively pursue one another to produce their own little Bambis, the amour can produce danger for motorists.
    — Lisa Cisneros, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Common cause, in turn, leads to common ground (both aspire to be writers), common ground to friendship, and friendship, for Casement, to a misty-eyed amour fou that will long outlast Ward’s youthful handsomeness.
    — David Leavitt, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2016
  • The big paintings theatricalize stages of adolescent amour—resisted seduction, furtive intimacy, triumphant union, and subsequent nostalgia—among young people at court who were given nothing to do in life except to dress up and to play at love.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Shy loner August falls head over heels for uber-cool commuter Jane—only to discover that her amour fou is actually trapped in the New York subway system, circa 1970.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 July 2021
  • Speaking to Snobiety, Eilish, 20, was a bit more circumspect about her love life, avoiding mentioning her 31-year-old partner while speaking in more general terms about the head-spinning concept of amour.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
  • There's amour fou, and then there is Katia and Maurice Krafft, a pair of married French volcanologists whose passionate union was forged at the molten center of some of the 20th century's most notorious eruptions.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022

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