How to Use star-crossed in a Sentence

star-crossed

adjective
  • Lesbian star-crossed lovers à la Bonnie and Clyde?
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • The legacy of nuclear propulsion is deep and star-crossed.
    — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The star-crossed tend to double down on superstition.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The best bet is that SpaceX proves a scientific triumph, and star-crossed as an stock.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In one scene, Edward likens the couple's star-crossed romance to a lion falling in love with a lamb.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The star-crossed extra twist, of course, was that only days after the national-title game the rules changed to allow the dunk again.
    — Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The duo play star-crossed BFFs in the epic romance, which Goldstein co-wrote with William Bridges.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Vikings have begun a new year with yet another quarterback quandary, a familiar scenario for this star-crossed franchise.
    — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie lead the series as the star-crossed, puck-smashing Shane and Ilya.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Think how many times during Rodgers’ Green Bay tenure that the quarterback played well, only to have the Packers’ star-crossed special teams betray him.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie lead the series as the star-crossed, puck-smashing Shane Hollander and Ilya Rosanov.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, star-crossed lovers Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Brian (Jamie Roy) managed to plot an escape of their own — but not before getting some major blood on their hands.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In May, Kohan, 32, opened up to PEOPLE about season 4's emotional twists and urged Cal and Maggie fans not to give up hope on the star-crossed couple just yet.
    — Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • Earlier this year, Quinn pounced on the opportunity to cast Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams as star-crossed fae princes from feuding kingdoms who (spoiler) have been knocking boots in secret.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 1 June 2026
  • The sweeping romance set across three decades of passion, loss, and hope in Beirut stars Hassan Akil and Mounia Akl as Nino and Yasmina, star-crossed lovers bound by a magnetic relationship, one an eternal optimist and the other an impulsive pragmatist.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, Netflix's Regency-era romance drama (Season 4 Part 1 now streaming) has returned for a new year of lustful glances, hopelessly star-crossed lovers and absolutely absurd balls for a fourth go-round, this time with a story all about the second Bridgerton son, Benedict (Luke Thompson).
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026

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