How to Use love handles in a Sentence

love handles

plural noun
  • Looking to get rid of love handles or flabby thighs?
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Tired of having love handles or belly fat that just won't go away?
    — Mark Anderson, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Double that time for love handles, which require a treatment on each side.
    — Gina Way, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Even the name’s a spoof, trading on the Spanish slang for love handles.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Inside the office, Martha lounged on a bench, all droopy eyes and love handles.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The square heads overflowed on all sides to create love handles and sagging bellies.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The second goal was getting rid of stubborn fat from my waistline and hip area (love handles).
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Those extra strips of fabric would help make room for a bigger life, with or without the love handles.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Adipose fat, such as the love handles, can act as energy deposits.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Build up your pecs, lats, deltoids, and traps to create the illusion of smaller love handles.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Your love handles lie on top of the obliques, which are a very specific group of abdominal muscles.
    — Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Simply counting steps isn’t going to increase anyone’s cardio or melt away the love handles.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Losing love handles, like bodybuilding, is a game of illusion.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Among men, the waist—or love handles—are a persistent issue, as this tends to be one of the last and hardest places to shift fat during weight loss.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 20 June 2022
  • The Bears offense is the doughy guy at the gym with the love handles, vowing to change but lacking the discipline to follow through.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Everyone’s soft gazes soon hardened as the magnificent baby with so many rolls and love handles proved to be all unsightly flab.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Losing body fat is a process that is equally distributed in your body—in other words, 1,000 reps of side bends will not burn away the fat around your love handles.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There was no winter lethargy, no gaining weight between skin and muscle to insulate from the cold, no comforting post-holiday belly rolls and love handles.
    — Chiara Barzini, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022
  • However, researchers are attempting to bring it back with the patch, ultimately leading to more fat being burned and love handles disappearing.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Still, a balanced diet and cardio exercises are essential for reducing the appearance of love handles.
    — Jennifer Cohen, Health, 18 June 2023
  • Most assume shapewear is just for women, but the men’s version—vests, T-shirts and briefs in stretchy synthetic blends that promise to flatten love handles and firm glutes—is becoming more common.
    — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Another standout, Cryo Selene, offers cold sculpting to lift and tone the skin on the face and body and is said to permanently eliminate fat deposits around the belly, back, love handles and thighs.
    — Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
  • During the procedure, the device is strapped onto trouble areas, most often the stomach, love handles, and thighs, and alternates between intense heat, which is absorbed by the body's fatty tissue, and brief cooldowns.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 9 July 2019
  • In Central Florida, a med spa promotes fat-dissolving treatments, including Kybella and PCDC (lipodissolve), to reduce bra fat, upper arms, love handles and thighs.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But the inspection found that Lacerna Kimbrell exceeded that amount during a liposuction 360 (abdomen, love handles, back) and breast reduction on May 13, 2024.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025

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