How to Use sapphic in a Sentence

sapphic

adjective
  • Thus, the drink of choice last weekend in my small sapphic home was a negroni.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This kiss — and entire movie — is for the sapphic yearners out there who need to cry it out.
    — James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • Aguilera asked after a sapphic moment with one of her dancers.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2024
  • In You is a novella-length small-town, sapphic, friends-to-lovers story.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Since, several new sapphic spaces have opened across the country—and the world.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2024
  • Woody’s, more of a bar than a nightclub, is hosting no cover sapphic night on Friday.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Set at a vaguely sapphic sleepover, Eilish sings about moving on from an ex who, frankly, sounds like a scrub.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 2 June 2021
  • Again, this is an incredibly sapphic television series, so there are a lot of gay smooches.
    — James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a plot for every listener, from stories set in medieval times to sapphic vampire romances.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Who’s looking for a self-destructive sapphic anthem?
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Elliott’s letters left little doubt about Austen’s sapphic leanings.
    — Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This sapphic coming-of-age rom-com is a clever delight with comfortingly low stakes and just the right amount of bite to keep things interesting.
    — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Sunburn is a sapphic love story set in early 90’s Ireland.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • To make an entire Bridgerton season about a sapphic relationship feels huge.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Hunting season is upon us as a new season of Netflix‘s hit sapphic murder mystery is in the can, with another on deck.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • Three women are connected by vampirism across time in this lush, atmospheric story about love, hunger, rage and sapphic desire.
    — Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Beautifully windswept, with a touch of the gothic, this sapphic retelling of the selkie wife folktale is rife with yearning and features a slow-burn and tender romance.
    — Kalie Cassidy july 25, Literary Hub, 25 July 2025
  • Cruz plays opposite Milena Smit in the sapphic film about two women bonded by motherhood and tragedy.
    — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Families on the street are combusting as secrets, from infidelity to young sapphic love, are exposed on front lawns and crowded events.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Your favorite sapphic murder show has officially been renewed.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Or at the ever-growing sapphic fandom around the WNBA.
    — Ana Osorno, Them., 26 Aug. 2025
  • On Halloween, the friend-couple had sapphic eyebrows raising everywhere.
    — James Factora, Them., 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the associations between sapphic love and bloodthirsty villains stuck.
    — NBC News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Howarth’s sapphic novel Sunburn was passed around between lots of readers last summer; her second book is similarly filled with longing.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • River is stubborn, but her voice grows noticeably smaller and more frail as the interrogation wears on and every phrase gets turned over in dung-beetle claws for its sapphic overtones.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • A number of main and supporting characters are people of color, while a sapphic relationship sits at the heart of the sweeping narrative.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Sapphic social media users were quick to point out that this kind questioning of someone’s static sexuality is rarely directed towards gay men.
    — Quispe López, Them., 27 Aug. 2025
  • The main event, a live operatic performance combining apple farming and sapphic erotica, sets the tone.
    — Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some were speculated sapphic throughout their careers and posthumously.
    — M. Mick Powell august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • To speak in internet parlance, Brittany Snow starring in a sapphic murder-mystery thriller for Netflix was not on my bingo card.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2025

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