lover

Example Sentences

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Joe Hart: I am not really a lover of dark horses.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Claw machine lover Neiki Lee carefully lowers the metal jaws of a crane with a joystick into a pool of prizes, only to have the small toy slip from its clutches again and again.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

With money from an English lover and the patronage of the notorious Chudleigh, Cornelys launched an “assembly and concert rooms” in 1760 at Carlisle House in fashionable Soho Square.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

That robustness was his way with Leonard Cohen’s “Mother Mother,” and of “Father Death’s Blues,” in which Ginsberg extols death as the world’s greatest lover.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

While that lover sounded horrible indeed, if Mrs. Annie Thayer knew what he was up to, she was just as fiendish.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan