valentine

Example Sentences

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Analysts say the rest of the strategy often reads like a valentine rather than a sober national security communique.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

Like the letter itself, the score is part valentine, part elegy—and John put his heart into it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

The production design, like a montage of greeting cards come to life, celebrated valentine passion, anniversary tenderness and golden sympathy, releasing flocks of trained geese into a technicolor sunset to symbolize lifelong pair bonding.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

All I can think of is the picture in our Catechism of a valentine with measles.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez