How to Use masochist in a Sentence

masochist

noun
  • What kind of masochist would put chili and jalapenos on a brat in a pretzel bun at this hour?
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Quarantine is nothing if not a place for masochists to thrive.
    — EW.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • There's no leaderboard either, so chasing a top grade is a chore for masochists.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
  • In the corner was a large chair fit to be the throne of a king or a dictator or a masochist who enjoys cramps.
    — Anthony Veasna So, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Frank's Solange is a tortured soul playing the masochist to Claire's sadistic games.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 1 June 2018
  • Within any sadomasochistic relationship, the masochist has a say in what’s being done to them.
    — Yasmin Lajoie, refinery29.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Only a masochist with unlimited free time would pursue every painful option.
    — Matt Fuchs, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The Penguins are about to endure a stretch of schedule that only a masochist would appreciate.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Bint Aamir was no masochist, but there’s a masochistic element to Zuhour’s ruminations.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • The last thing any Bengals fan/chronicler/card-carrying masochist wants is to be Charlie Brown-ed.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 July 2021
  • Krail, one of the Central Coast Section’s most successful coaches over the past 35 years, is no masochist.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Heck, Léa Seydoux's character didn't seem all that upset about being assigned a mission to seduce the snake-like masochist.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Evans’ painful interviews have inspired masochists like the Stanochs, to convince their own friends to gather around a table and cry, sweat, vomit and suffer together.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2024
  • For the masochists out there who analyse every fixture and predict and project until their minds can take no more, Brentford away looked like the second toughest assignment of the run-in.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This is as if the masochists running the bar exam or the National Spelling Bee had invaded the national pastime.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Only a masochist would sit down and listen to the whole hour-plus of this front to back — which means it’s perfectly targeted for Nine Inch Nail’s core audience.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Recently our enemies were communists and liberals, now Americans are provoking masochists against us.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Agent provocateurs place themselves in the center of it all as distractions and are typically masochists and anarchists who are just out wreaking havoc for the thrill or attempting to infiltrate a movement.
    — Yesha Callahan, Essence, 30 May 2020
  • Depression is a white supremacist, a malignant narcissist, a rape apologist, a gaslighter, Iago, a sadist, a masochist, a hot Lego underfoot, a mind made hell.
    — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In fact, the performance is so egregiously underwhelming that any masochists who plan on seeing it anyway should probably look up clips of the real Eisenhower before hitting theaters.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 May 2026
  • That impression of sweatlessness is the masochist’s ideal—and writing, many writers will tell you, is masochism, a torture and a torment, an exercise in mental brick-breaking that justifies itself in pursuit of the apt and elegant line.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2020
  • In the very wild story, Not-Adrian is depicted as being a masochist that loves being dominated by Not-Diane, whose whiteness has ruined the traditionally black firm.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • In Banshees, McDonagh appears content to portray his two protagonists as, respectively, a senseless masochist and a senseless arsonist.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • Meet Hikari, an anime virtual wife, and Eisuke, a virtual boyfriend who plays to a masochist fantasy, these are products of a multi-million dollar industry that's sprung up in response to Japan's relationship crisis.
    — Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The latest expression that shatters the 140-proof mark comes from Louisville blender Barrell Craft Spirits, and this is one blend of whiskeys finished in Caribbean rum barrels that should be on any whiskey masochist’s bottle list.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Paris was producing existentialist literature, but London had Bacon, the artist of existentialist life, a reckless gambler and homosexual masochist.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 15 June 2018

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