star-crossed
Example Sentences
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Their retelling imagines the star-crossed lovers meeting later in life, repositioning the story from a perspective of age and experience, with the title characters aged in their 40s.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Jessica and Erik Berglund, who live in Orange just around where Freeman grew up, are star-crossed lovers in MLB terms, with Jessica bleeding Dodgers blue and Erik cheering on the Angels.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
Yet the comic high jinks, star-crossed lovers and long-lost relatives that pop up in his play “The Miser,” first produced in 1668, will be instantly familiar to anybody who has ever seen a Shakespeare comedy.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
The six-episode series follows their star-crossed characters, Rick and Michonne, as they fight to find their way back to one another after years of separation.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2024
They would have thought we were star-crossed lovers.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
