Example sentences for: obsessives

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

  • And Usenet attracts more than its share of obsessives (most are garden-variety Waco conspiracists or anti-Clinton loonies).

  • Sports junkies hoard trivia for the same reason political junkies lock their remotes on C-SPAN and Hollywood obsessives salivate over the Academy Awards pre-game show: Power.

  • Because political information goes stale faster than bread, the first destination for obsessives should be a news site.

  • As recently as 1996, being a political obsessive was hard work: all those out-of-town newspapers and pricey newsletters to read, the gossipy long-distance phone calls to other obsessives, the endless hours spent combing campaign finance filings at the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C.

  • turning every dialogue scene into a colloquy for ardent obsessives" (Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But Cusack can't sustain the freshness of the original idea: The film "isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ).


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