Words similar to lover

Example sentences for: lover

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

An influential townsman takes a lover there.
(One might add in passing that the twentieth-century, establishmentarian feathers ruffled by D. H. Lawrence with Lady Chatterley's Lover were less the result of Mellors' seducing a member of the aristocracy than his not addressing her properly.)
a) May have helped Lewinsky simply because he's bighearted and generous not because she was the president's lover.
Vishnu, a four-armed god with mace, conch, discus, and lotus, has many incarnations, of which the most famous is Krishna, who appears as conquering hero, flute-playing lover, or mischievous baby.
As a nonspecialist, simply a lover of words, an amateur precisianist and a crossword addict--alas, I find yours too easy--I am spurred to take issue with Tony Day [XX,4,21] on the subject of rhyming slang.