Example Sentences

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Realizing that his lovesickness would appear unseemly so soon after his first wife’s passing, the president initially confined his ardent courtship to secret assignations with the more restrained Edith.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

A good enough quarterback to earn a scholarship offer at the University of Alabama, Bowden lasted only one semester in Tuscaloosa as lovesickness drove him back to Birmingham to marry Ann Estock.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2021

As a composition, “Nothing Compares” ranks high among Prince’s masterpieces, one of the most wrenchingly beautiful articulations of lovesickness in all of popular song.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2019

The ancient Greeks thought lovesickness was a kind of insanity.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

When she saw the state her son was in, she knew he would die from his lovesickness if she didn’t help.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis