How to Use infatuation in a Sentence

infatuation

noun
  • As with many hunters, my infatuation with Africa took root at a young age.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
  • No one else would know that the crime infatuation is residing in your skull.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Sidao’s infatuation with the sport was so deep that he is thought to have penned the first manual on the subject.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • My Taylor-and-Travis infatuation felt like the gooey, swelling in your throat kind of good.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Uh, and at the time that the bust was revealed, this infatuation manifested in a few ways.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Next was infatuation with spin rate, then spin efficiency and so on.
    — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The thrills that once fueled their infatuation fade out, and a sense of security fades in.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • His infatuation with Spain was like an acute crush that colored every aspect of his art.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • As to why the blunt bob is trending so hard right now beyond our leftover infatuation with Bibb’s?
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, headaches and heartaches abound for those that decide to combine all their finances during their infatuation phase.
    — Juan Carlos Medina, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • We were accused of puppy love, infatuation, and naiveté, as if these traits were cardinal sins.
    — Genevieve Plunkett, refinery29.com, 14 July 2021
  • For some reason, over the past four months, my feelings for Kendra have grown into an infatuation.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Leto cited an infatuation with the city’s iconic landmark dating back to his youth.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • New designs of planes are always in the news and people across the globe have always had an infatuation with airplanes.
    — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Not until the day when a woman from an infatuation a few years back introduced me to Michele.
    — Claës Nordenskiöld, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Admittedly, some of my infatuation is due to the sleek and stylish design.
    — Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Admittedly, some of her infatuation is due to the sleek and stylish design.
    — Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
  • One afternoon, around a year after my father’s death, my mother had enough of my infatuation with dark tales.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Once Jeremiyah Love comes off the board — possibly in the top five — the infatuation ends.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026
  • One aspect of the clash that intrigued Hunte the most was the youth's infatuation, which may point to how things shake out in the future.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The infatuation with tallow appears to be one of the few times their content focuses on the same product.
    — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2025
  • But there is another aspect of this infatuation, which is the prince who looks at his land, Sicily, with the eyes of a lover.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But as the infatuation with nonstick cookware started to fade, people started singing the praises of cast iron once again.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
  • The story follows Jade, a teenage girl with a gruesome infatuation with slasher films.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Oct. 2022
  • And nothing about his infatuation with Gemini had raised red flags for Rachel.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • At least a part of this infatuation is the fact that the reality of girlhood is anything but Barbie-ish.
    — Zoe Yu, Longreads, 28 May 2024
  • For his part, Cottingham describes Weiss in terms that sound almost like love — or some form of infatuation.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2022
  • This is a record of warmth and passion, one that hangs on the conviction that nobody has ever felt so consumed by the dizzy, wild and blissed-out rush of infatuation.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • To combine this kind of depth perception with the galactic ache of an unreal love, of an undead infatuation, that was new.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • After all, romantic comedies aren’t about the beauty and dynamics of love so much as the fizzy allure of lust and infatuation.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 June 2026

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