How to Use loveless in a Sentence

loveless

adjective
  • Loveless lives on a block where six of the 15 houses are now sober homes.
    — Joanie Cox Henry, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 May 2017
  • As landslides go, Starmer’s was loveless.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There was no life left that wasn’t loveless, anymore, Qing Yuan thought.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • We have been married for 14 years, the last six of which have been sexless and loveless.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.
    — TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2020
  • The Deep Ellum club will have four shows for lovestruck folks and one for the loveless.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.
    — James Baldwin, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • In short, too many people find themselves in a loveless relationship with the app.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • These matches volunteer plenty of loveless firsts and worsts.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Moreover, for a new dashboard, the integration of the head-up display is loveless.
    — Jens Meiners, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
  • Meanwhile, a fiery matchmaker worries that Ember will have a loveless life.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist.
    — Aarushi Bhandari, The Conversation, 14 July 2025
  • But still a loveless option for Becka, who has unrequited feelings for Agnes.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • From the outside, there could almost be something regressive about this idea of a loveless middle-aged woman finding renewal in the arms of a man.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • The father, lost in his loveless gloom and living in a world of hard, martial surfaces, spends his time listening to brooding Russian chants.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Loveless also her team lone goal in the Knights (7-8) semifinal loss to Lake Norman.
    — Jay Edwards, charlotteobserver, 1 May 2017
  • They’re done with their loveless working relationship, and neither is willing to continue faking it.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • The disappointment from feeling trapped in a loveless relationship with your employer can also lead to a messy public split.
    — Diane Brady, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • These people may have all the money in the world, but as the last four seasons have shown us in vivid, lacerating detail, their cold, loveless lives inspire little envy.
    — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 25 May 2023
  • The urn containing her ashes sits conspicuously on the mantlepiece in her parents’ loveless bedroom.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Taylor Swift unwittingly helped Paul Rudd land his latest role as a loveless, bumbling mailman.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • However, in a functional but loveless relationship, this support may be lacking.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • That revulsion, though, is usually expressed tonally rather than verbally—in the loveless couplings, or in the cold white privacy of yet another bathroom stall.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • And yet My Bloody Valentine’s stature continues to grow, with Loveless serving as a deathless testimonial.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2011
  • Getting hitched while either of these planets is tracking backwards is a surefire way to end up in a loveless, sexless union, according to Miller, founder of Astrology Zone.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
  • In the chapter about the actor, these details will include his thalassophobia and his various chemical dependencies, which the girlfriend will theorize stem from a loveless childhood.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • There is a clairvoyante, Madame Sosostris, and another seer, the blind Tiresias, with whom Odysseus once conversed in the underworld, and who now watches two loveless urban dwellers making love.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The directors play the lead roles, as, respectively, a suicidal Frenchman and a Bosnian ballerina caught in a loveless relationship who meet cute in southern France.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • However, in a loveless relationship, physical affection can feel mechanical or transactional.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Loveless, Zvyagintsev's third Cannes competition entry, is produced by longtime producing partner Alexander Rodnyansky.
    — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017

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