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Example sentences for: crushes

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When they're not having constant sex or actively refraining from it, celebs seem to be busy entertaining flirtatious, schoolgirl crushes on one another.
The cover story repeats the shopworn criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs.
His art came out of his hobbies, and from celibate crushes on women marked, as a general rule, by an a priori unattainability, though in truth one gets the sense that attainment was less central to his fantasies than were the ritual adorations of a fan.
So the doctor inserts metal tongs, physically crushes the head, and dismembers the fetus.
It's the myth of Sisyphus played for laughs: When the rock rolls back down the hill, it crushes that poor bastard's toes.