love affair

Example Sentences

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The feisty heroine is Iris Hawkins, who, in the course of a tentative love affair with a nerdy engineer named Geoffrey Hale, discovers the pernicious designs of a secret order.

From The Wall Street Journal

She brought the socially connected Mrs. Walter into her confidence about the love affair with Elisha.

From Literature

After a three-year love affair with anything related to artificial intelligence, U.S. investors are flocking to the factory owners, fast-food restaurants and commodity companies that have seemingly strong odds of surviving the technological revolution intact.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.

From Los Angeles Times

In an interview published to mark Massie's retirement as The Scotsman's chief literary critic, David Robinson outlined what he called the author's "love affair" with the paper, as well as the scale of his output.

From BBC