How to Use besotted in a Sentence

besotted

adjective
  • Can't wait to see what kind of wedding the besotted pair dreams up post-pandemic.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a reason why the most violent parts of the far right are so besotted with these images.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
  • Life begins when a besotted pregnant woman wants to have and love that precious baby.
    — WSJ, 8 July 2022
  • Burnishing his cult of personality is, for all but the most besotted or trollish, not on that list.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • As an art critic who happens to be hopelessly besotted with soccer, all this fascinates me.
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
  • When news of their engagement broke, the besotted couple was enjoying a break in the Bahamas.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 11 July 2018
  • In front of me at her show sat a group of young women who seemed besotted by Sui’s faux fur coats and bags and her paillette beanies and sparkly twinsets.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • All across its 375 square feet swarm birds, masks and maenads—the besotted followers of the god Dionysus.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
  • As one of Hollywood’s most legendary heartthrobs, Depp enjoys a large and besotted fan base.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • Will is pursued by a besotted friend who plays provocatively with binary conceptions of gender.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In a difficult role, Freeman makes the besotted teacher an incurable romantic, at least in his eyes.
    — James Verniere, Boston Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Daisy Patel had no issues with besotted lovers hiding away in a toilet cubicle for a little covert tongue gymnastics.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 29 Mar. 2021
  • If anything, Oppenheimer can be overly besotted.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
  • If anything, Oppenheimer can be overly besotted.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
  • And unsurprisingly, even Harry's wife still looks totally besotted with him.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Carolyn sneaks into a gala; Klein, the fairy godmother, introduces her to the instantly besotted prince, John.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Twitter users became besotted with its imagery, and seemingly within three to five minutes, sent their feral hog jokes running across timelines everywhere.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Her infidelity turns on the proposition of Howard, a besotted businessman who offers her $1,000 to sleep with him for just one night.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Bénédicte’s racing ambitions, meanwhile, prove secondary to her function as Gino’s besotted lover (though one pre-race locker room quickie inspires her to come in third).
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • But Americans, freed of royal rule for more than 200 years, have come to develop a besotted regard for the spectacle of royalty.
    — Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • Andreas lives in a deeply religious Bavarian hamlet with Claudia, his besotted, church-frequenting, apron dress wearing wife.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Surprisingly, in our own emoji-besotted culture, there’s been something of an academic competition to find the world’s oldest ancestor of the smiley face emoji.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
  • In just a few weeks, the irrepressible Jane Freeman and her besotted husband will celebrate their 58th wedding anniversary.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But by this time, Henry was already deeply besotted with his own mistress Jane Seymour; he would be betrothed to her the day after Boleyn’s execution.
    — Suyin Haynes, Time, 2 Dec. 2019
  • But the area has seen a flurry of sales in the last couple of years, as longtime residents have died or aged out of the neighborhood and besotted buyers like Ari Heckman have leapt at the opportunity to get a foothold there.
    — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 16 May 2019
  • Roomier suits then allowed for the high-octane dance carnage, which filtered down to Raju versus Bheem, with the former faking a leg cramp to, again, help his besotted friend win Jenny’s heart — and the contest.
    — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Only Marian Paroo, the local librarian and music teacher, can save the besotted town from its infatuation with Harold.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • There’s a real industrial approach to the sound — hard, percussive rhythms beneath the plush interior of melody, and lyrics that are just about the most fun a listener can have pretending he, too, is this glamorously besotted or gloriously bereft.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In America's gladiatorial two-party system, that could well deprive Republicans of a winning political issue with which to batter out-of-touch, climate change-besotted Democrats.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The movie opens with Bull (voiced by Adam Devine), the terrier main character, as an adorable little puppy brought home to his besotted owners — depicted, along with most humans in the film, neck down as a facsimile of a pet’s POV.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2025

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