LOVER in a Sentence

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248 example sentences for LOVER, such as:

1. The lovers held each other close.
2. She was shot by her jilted lover.
3. Past is the day of crone and lover.
4. Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
5. His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lover
 n.  a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
 n.  a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Past is the day of crone and lover.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  Sans niece, sans lover; and sans maid.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
3  It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
4  She never had a lover, and the governor proposed old Bounderby, and she took him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  Here and there, indeed, a fair cheek might turn pale, or a faint scream might be heard, as a lover, a brother, or a husband, was struck from his horse.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Thou art no Christian, Rebecca; and to thee are unknown those high feelings which swell the bosom of a noble maiden when her lover hath done some deed of emprize which sanctions his flame.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  He was the trembling excited sort of lover, whose crisis soon came, and was finished.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  He was a more excited lover that night, with his strange, small boy's frail nakedness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  There were several who would have been quite possible as lover, even Mick.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  She was sure Connie had a lover, and something in her soul exulted.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  And this night she was wondering who Lady Chatterley's lover was.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  But she was going as a sort of discipline: and also because, if she had a child, Clifford could think she had a lover in Venice.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  Yes, she even made it easy for him to do that, though she had no lover.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  She didn't say she had been the keeper's lover, she only said she liked him, and told Forbes the history of the man.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  She was shot by her jilted lover.
17  The pensive lover gazed at the portrait of his beloved and deeply sighed.
18  According to Miss Manners, to call your husband by your lover's name is worse than a mere gaffe; it is a tactical mistake.
19  His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.
20  It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid.
21  Prized for their inimitably rich and flavor, white truffles are the ultimate indulgence to celebrate the holidays, or reward your spouse or lover.
22  The town is a popular destination for art lovers.
23  Some people say that true lovers are one soul that is separated when it's born and those two halves will always yearn to find their way back together.
24  The lovers held each other close.
25  Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
26  Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
27  The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
28  The British are renowned as a nation of dog lovers.
29  This book is essential reading for all nature lovers.
30  The picture captures the two lovers with their arms entwined.