Example Sentences

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He is possibly best known as Sign Crushes Motorist and for making slowcore tracks.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

Crushes are so weird — I mean, think back on some long-expired crush.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2022

Crushes on various women continued throughout my childhood and grew more intense.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2022

Crushes, phobias, people I have argued with and envied―this was the information I never wanted to post on Facebook, but instead had asked Facebook to help me find.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2019

“Fourth grade, sixth grade, and seventh. Crushes from long ago.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali