Example sentences for: crushes

How can you use “crushes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Cusack plays the funny kid from a broken home who crushes on the A-student valedictorian played by Ione Skye.

  • When they're not having constant sex or actively refraining from it, celebs seem to be busy entertaining flirtatious, schoolgirl crushes on one another.

  • "These crushes do get big, but it's what we do ," says Susan Zirinsky, executive producer for Campaign '96 at CBS News (and model for the Holly Hunter character in Broadcast News ). "Very infrequently do you miss a major shot if you're a network crew.

  • It's the myth of Sisyphus played for laughs: When the rock rolls back down the hill, it crushes that poor bastard's toes.


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