Example Sentences

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Speaking with host John Berman, Holmes also stated that Trump's inner circle is worried he is obsessing over the hearings when they would prefer that he be concentrating on the upcoming midterm elections.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2022

Eileen is obsessing about an ex-boyfriend, and also possibly kindling a romance with Simon, an Oxford-educated political adviser she’s known since childhood.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

But I was sitting in a theater of 1,200 people watching a movie about a girl who is obsessing about the scale and realizing that I had just done it all over again.

From Slate • May 16, 2020

Right now, Nderitu is obsessing about the flight test of Project 14, planned for next week.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2015

It is this: whatever you may see—little tricks of speech or movement—you must not for one instant yield to the thought that the creature that is obsessing him is what he thinks it is.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh