How to Use be in love in a Sentence

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  • And to be in love means to choose that person over and over again, to go through the messy stuff with.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Pride and Williams create a world in which Black people can just be, and just be in love, hangups and all.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • And for some reason, this song took on the meaning to me of wanting to be free and wanting to be in love and wanting to belong to somebody.
    New York Times, 20 June 2021
  • With the world crumbling down around her, Suki Waterhouse is grateful to be in love.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • High schoolers should be in love with their prom dresses, said Victoria Kotsovos.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Many of us can’t fathom the idea of someone not wanting to be in love, but love is all around us and is experienced in a magnitude of ways.
    Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There’s no way two people who treat each other this way can actually be in love.
    Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 19 July 2021
  • After a sleepless night, Roald (who happens to be in love with Kate, and is very not cool with Joe hooking up with her), chases Joe into the woods to kill him.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Feb. 2023
  • To change—but also just to be in love, like, to relate in a really loving way to another person.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • So while Toni and Cheryl may be in love now, their families find themselves on the opposites sides of some pretty brutal history.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2021
  • On paper, everyone seems to be in love with the Arizona Cardinals heading into the 2020 season.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Could anyone be in love ever again, knowing exactly what their partner is thinking about them?
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Conservatives may not be in love with tech companies at the moment, nor should these businesses be above reproach.
    Andrew Wilford, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Especially since there haven't been many movies about gay romance, this was a really rare gift to get to portray a fully expansive romance — all the ins and outs and ups and downs of two men who happen to be in love with each other.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Recovering from an operation to repair a hole in her head, Allison might also be in love with her surgeon.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • Despite that, another stalker claiming to be in love with her appeared at her doorstep just weeks ago after finding her new address — and her mother’s phone number — online.
    New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Letty surely used to be in love with Jordana Brewster but then pitifully married Jordana Brewster’s brother instead.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 25 June 2021

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