How to Use infatuated in a Sentence

infatuated

adjective
  • Heathcliff drives a wedge between the two girls, with Cathy infatuated with her new playmate.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Artists have become infatuated with the city once again and are promoting their albums with unique pop-up experiences and promo tactics that lean into the chaos.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The professor visits the club and becomes infatuated with the much younger Dietrich.
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Albert, clearly infatuated, wanted George to meet Betty, and that’s when the older brother locked eyes with Charme, who was 19 years old at the time.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Jared Speight is a stubborn titan of Long Island abstraction when star writer Roxy Margaux first becomes infatuated with his bravado.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And then there’s Elizabeth Weiland (Margaret Qualley), the young Yale student with whom Hart is infatuated.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When the two meet, however, the Lord becomes infatuated with Lenore, beginning a passionate, turbulent relationship, per the book's synopsis.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Andor soon bonds with Klára, but later becomes infatuated with his late father, a ticket salesman with connections to the entertainment industry (escapism is a recurring motif) and an observant Jew, whose faith becomes of great interest to the boy.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Over the past quarter century, Western policymakers became infatuated with some dangerously oversimplified ideas.
    — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
  • The Army claimed McCarthy and Cohn, his chief counsel, had pressured the Army to give preferential treatment to David Schine, a McCarthy aide with whom Cohn was infatuated.
    — Kristen Monroe, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout his snooping and jet-setting, Pine becomes infatuated with Roper’s girlfriend Jed (Elizabeth Debicki), who eventually learns his real identity and begins to plot a way out of her toxic relationship.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But the Emmys consistently bypassed Scrubs, more infatuated with the glamour of Sex and the City and reliability of Everybody Loves Raymond until Garden State turned Zach Braff, however momentarily, into a movie star.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 May 2026

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