How to Use love-hate in a Sentence

love-hate

adjective
  • It's become a love-hate thing with Halo fans.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In a love-hate relationship with your wardrobe this time of year?
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This is home,’ and had a love-hate relationship with it.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Medicine may have changed, but the bromances, romances, and love-hate-mances have stayed the same.
    — Lucy Ford, Time, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Colby's had his own life, his own highs and lows and ups and downs and love-hate with Survivor.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026
  • And in just a little while, fans would return to their love-hate relationship with him.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024
  • Spanish moss and crape myrtles seem to have a love-hate relationship.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • At 13 months apart, the two siblings have a love-hate relationship.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Even the most level-headed among them can have a love-hate relationship with the tech giant.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Still, people have a love-hate relationship with robots.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • Paige Spiranac has long been in a love-hate relationship with social media.
    — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Los Angeles has a love-hate relationship with rain.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But before her getaway can start, her car breaks down, leading to a love-hate relationship with a local business owner.
    — Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Living beside the Fox River can be a love-hate relationship.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Calt had a love-hate relationship with decrepit blues genius Skip James and most likely himself.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
  • The actor had a love-hate relationship with the character of Luke throughout his tenure on the award-winning soap opera.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Kelsey Grammer opened up about his love-hate relationship with Los Angeles.
    — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Despite its affinity with Chicago, the region has something of a love-hate relationship with its bigger neighbor.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Dating app fatigue Younger generations have also had a love-hate relationship with dating apps during the past several years.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • What started as a rocky relationship soon turned into a classic love-hate dynamic, and eventually, a genuine connection.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Williams-Dillard recalled decades of editing Fitzgerald, building the sort of love-hate professional bond any writer-editor pair develops over time.
    — Matt Moret, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Investors have a love-hate relationship with stocks Investment experts say the survey results prove, more than anything, that American investors don’t entirely trust the stock market.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Investors sometimes had a love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence-adjacent stocks in 2025, but in the end the trade accounted for much of the stock market’s gains this year.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Determined to rewrite her destiny, Dan-sim sets out to realize Seo-ri’s dream of becoming a famous actress…and develops a love-hate relationship with Se-gye along the way.
    — Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • But the team that so long has had a love-hate relationship with March (see Fairleigh Dickinson, circa 2023), might actually be doing the month right.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Audrey has a love-hate relationship with the estate's new owner, millionaire business mogul Richard DeVere (Peter Bowles).
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Newsom has manifested this weird love-hate relationship with oil, craving it in the short-term to keep California running while vilifying its manufacturers as the architects of our climate change crisis.
    — Tom Philp, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Geary had a love-hate relationship with the character of Luke throughout his tenure on the award-winning soap opera; the actor initially exited the show in 1984 to pursue other opportunities.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The ongoing love-hate chemistry between Avon and his character’s arch nemesis, the head of the Federation, Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce), was an undeniable highlight.
    — Scott Snowden, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The show, debuting Thursday, follows the love-hate relationship between a legendary comedian (Jean Smart) and a talented writer played by Hannah Einbinder.
    — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026

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