How To Use Obsessively In A Sentence

  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • When production designer David Brisbin oversaw the “rebuild” of Charlie Swan’s house, he studied the original location obsessively and created exactly what he had seen — with one key addition. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 9TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • Barbie, Toys “Я” Us machine guns—these are “charged objects,” contaminative; they represent the dog-eat-dog world, the obsessively competitive culture that synagogues and mosques and churches strive to keep out. The Barbie Chronicles
  • Obsessively monitoring lines and wrinkles, swollen ankles and grey hairs, they are haunted by feelings of self-hatred and inadequacy.
  • All those so-called hipsters fervently awaiting Wes Anderson's follow-up to The Life Aquatic don't need to obsessively check IMDb; starting next week, they just have to turn on the TV. Bottle Racket
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  • After an hour of obsessively checking my email, it sent me an address, phone number and more.
  • By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
  • His once very masculine apartment with it's autographed sports and political memorabilia, perfectly categorized books and movie collections which were once kept in obsessively compulsive neat order, came to resemble a day care center. Susanna Quinn: Eight Weeks With Dad
  • The student complained McCormick was falsely saying they were dating, that he was calling her obsessively and had punched a wall and said "I could have hurt you" after seeing her hug another guy, according to an e-mail Hansen sent administrators recapping the allegations. WCAX - Local News
  • Overwhelming amounts of online medical information are leading researchers to coin a new psychological classification called "cyberchondria" that describes people who obsessively misdiagnose themselves using the Web.
  • He was obsessively secretive, and most of what we know about him is gossip or hearsay. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns.
  • He's a detail man, obsessively fastidious to the point that he still handles the steady-cam himself, to get those shots just right.
  • As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
  • I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
  • The six o'clock TV news was burbung quietly in the background, the volume down since the latest Voss manhunt item ended, but the VCR still whirring, Parlabane now obsessively recording every broadcast on the matter. Boiling a Frog
  • Obsessively neat people should not consider owning companion birds.
  • Some still obsessively dial the mobile phones of their relatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the claims were that Kiss My Face's "Obsessively Organic" cleansers contained olefin sulfonate, a petrochemical, and that Avalon "Organics" contain the petrochemical Amdiopropyl Betaine. Save The Planet, Lose The Guilt
  • A natural psephologist, she memorises every constituency, candidate and outcome obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir.
  • I've been able to obsessively check my email six times in a weekend.
  • Tiny, rice-shaped orzo absorbs liquid and flavor much like rice, but it doesn't need to be stirred obsessively for a perfectly al dente, creamy result.
  • Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage.
  • The Party obsessively tracked public opinion.
  • They were raised by an obsessively house-proud mother and a violent drunkard of a father.
  • He obsessively catalogs items pertaining to his family.
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Well, here's a scene of him looking obsessively at a random blonde woman.
  • I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
  • When he was twelve he became almost obsessively interested in clocks and watches.
  • Among the claims were that Kiss My Face's "Obsessively Organic" cleansers contained olefin sulfonate, a petrochemical, and that Avalon "Organics" contain the petrochemical Amdiopropyl Betaine. Save The Planet, Lose The Guilt
  • Throughout it all, he has followed his passion and painted obsessively in every conscious moment.
  • The fellow with the cell phone, ironically named Virgil, chats obsessively on it with a number of intimates, including his former girlfriend Alice.
  • I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
  • Their self congratulatory engineering nerdy smarts is starting to takeover from their hard working, smart deal structuring obsessively perfect consumer products that are simple. Archive 2005-07-01
  • Some still obsessively dial the mobile phones of their relatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • She becomes obsessively concerned with what other people think of her. Beyond Chaotic Eating
  • While the setting evoked an escapist fantasy, the conversation dwelt obsessively on the harsh, inescapable realities of the moment.
  • Human beings are creatures who think about their own nature, obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • A handsome nerd, he loves computers and gadgets, but also obsessively fills tattered scrapbooks with sketches, old postcards and sentimental family snaps.
  • The media orgiastically detailed every look, word and tear the fallen starlet issued in court, just as it has obsessively covered every other mishap in this young woman's excruciatingly public life. Lindsay Lohan: Mean Girls Go To Jail
  • The star-crossed main characters of Grey obsessively follow a fashion magazine called Pure H -- recreating its surreal, bizarre scenes in their "looks"; Pure H feels like a real magazine but could never really exist think The Library television show from Kelly Link's "Magic for Beginners". Thanks & Grey
  • Conversely, the U.S. perspective is described as focussing "obsessively on whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons .... blinded by worst-case scenarios, which happens not to be Tehran's preferred scenario. The Devil We Know - Book Review
  • In fact, as my colleagues will confirm, whatever I do, I tend to do it obsessively.
  • Human beings are creatures who think about their own nature, obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • Irving, thought by his family at home in Vermont to be obsessively tidy, is a control freak.
  • I listened obsessively to the most recent song my ex-boyfriend wrote about me.
  • Her obsessively house-proud mother had her future mapped.
  • Here are prosthetic tools missing vital parts, a shelf rendered impractical by being made of cardboard, a water cabinet designated as sculptural, and a roll of woodchip wallpaper with every single chip obsessively hand-coloured. This week's new exhibitions
  • Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype. This week's new comedy
  • As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
  • In the night, in those early months, as she tried to move towards him to embrace him fully, to offer herself to his dried-up spirit, she found that he was happier obsessively fondling certain parts of her body in the dark as though he were trying to find something he had mislaid. The Empty Family
  • They are often seen with flocks of chaffinches, who also feed on beechmast, though not so obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • She worried obsessively that her four-year struggle would destroy her family's finances.
  • If you get too earnest about them, you could suffer the fate of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose obsessively detailed paintings of fairy scenes may have been his ticket to the madhouse.
  • But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs.
  • He was a packrat who never threw anything away, and so obsessively fastidious that he would boil up a saucepan full of old paperclips, drenched in cologne, for reuse. Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
  • He worried obsessively about syphilis, which the yaws somewhat resembled; he pored over medical books underscoring lists of symptoms.
  • They were fabulous company and we had a very good evening with them, eventually heading for the dortoir about 9pm, leaving the guardienne eating fondue with two friends, and demolishing several bottles of wine after which the friends presumably drove back down the hill, dispelling the stereotype that the Swiss are all obsessively law-abiding. Day 7 – Bonatti to Gite la Lechere
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Food got smaller, lighter and obsessively ethereal. Times, Sunday Times
  • I’m sure I’m not alone in having favorite books that I’ve read and re-read obsessively from a young age. Book Giveaways « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Hornby cites his hero Arsene Wenger, Arsenal manager (the club Hornby is famous for miserably yet obsessively supporting – see Fever Pitch) and “great philosopher”, who apparently said on becoming 50 that he realised he was not going to live the life that he wanted to. PETRONA
  • I imagine for a week or two I'll carry around a stack of index cards bound with a bulldog clip, and read obsessively looking for the latest life hacks.
  • Joshua David has described the atmosphere he and his co-founder envisioned as "less like a park and more like a scruffy wilderness," but the results will appear unruly only to those who still think of public gardens as requiring Victorian carpet bedding — yellow begonias and red pelargonium geometrically composed and obsessively mulched. Up in the Park
  • The word "ideation" also shows up in the phrase "suicidal ideation," meaning "thinking, often obsessively, about harming yourself. Week in Words
  • A lyric poet like Thomas had only one material, his own private life and feelings, which he explored with reckless honesty, and outside the poems obsessively guarded its details.
  • What that means in real terms is that nobody thinks about him for most of the year and then shouts his name obsessively during Wimbledon, throwing their unattainable expectations behind him until his inevitable quarter-final knock-out. Sports Personality Of The Year 2006 Betting Odds – Shaun Murphy
  • He couldn't help worrying obsessively about what would happen.
  • Some still obsessively dial the mobile phones of their relatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is there a reason for obsessively photographing and transmuting photographs, other than to offer them as mere aesthetic delectation in an attitude or revivalism that aligns these pictures with the tradition of the archaic in modern art?
  • There he passes the years, known to the townspeople as a "half-crazy miser," working his loom by day and obsessively counting the gold coins he has earned by evening's firelight. Stories of Fathers and Daughters
  • They tended to be the sort of persistently-involved residents newspapermen often refer to as "gadflies" - deeply, obsessively concerned about issues large and infinitesimal in the communities where they lived. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • His poetry corrosively and obsessively studied itself and was utterly unconcerned with the specificity of things and with relationships to people. Poetry
  • Finally, pneumoparotid has been reported to be self-induced to simulate mumps to avoid school or military duty and in children who obsessively puff their cheeks in response to psychological stress.
  • I swim obsessively when under stress and that explains a problematic shoulder.
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • He dipped all the glasses in hot water, obsessively cleaning each one.
  • Why should your beloved canine doppelgänger be restricted to a life of culinary and sartorial monotony while you dine out, groom obsessively, and gussy yourself up all the livelong day?
  • At the public library downtown I return obsessively to the photographs of concentration camps.
  • He was determined to hit the jackpot and stalked a row of slot machines like a 12-step program dropout, popping coins obsessively into one, then another and another. OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
  • He was obsessively secretive, and most of what has come down to us about him is gossip or hearsay. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sensitive side of his nature led him to brood obsessively about it, as he sunk into a period of mental anguish. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • At the public library downtown I return obsessively to the photographs of concentration camps.
  • So we obsessively analyze this epic Homerian battle, trying to find a moment of heroism, a brief glimpse to help salve our morally guilty wounds.
  • The strings tried to muscle in while Douglas repeated the initial phrase obsessively and with barely a change. Evening Standard - Home
  • Characters speak in unison, repeat phrases obsessively, deliver lines supine on the floor, break up sentences illogically, or mumble sotto voce.
  • Most people are obsessively concerned with the neatness of their house and garden and scornful of those who do not ‘make an effort’.
  • He works obsessively from 7.15 am to 9 or 10 at night.
  • Ring screws should be tightened firmly, not obsessively, because you may have to take your scope off in the field, where a screw that won't budge is the last thing you need. Rifle Care for Better Deer Hunting
  • The unfortunate side effect of obsessively pumping as much blood as possible into your biceps is that it then struggles to make its way to your member ... I Pity Gay Men
  • As the scandal first broke, Greenberg obsessively pandered to the most vile Jew haters with reckless headlines like "Bernard Madoff - The End Of The Jews", and quoted a "macher" that said "Madoff will kill more Jews than Hitler". Articles
  • Some still obsessively dial the mobile phones of their relatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • But we're also obsessively clean, showering once or more every day and spraying, dusting, and scrubbing our homes to spotlessness.
  • The sensitive side of his nature led him to brood obsessively about it, as he sunk into a period of mental anguish. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • Let's face it, when it comes to obsessively hiding your property, isn't that what leylandii is for?
  • Grandma Ida fusses obsessively over dishes as consecrated as any Divine law: matzo balls, sweetest carrot tzimmes, potato kugel, the lightest sponge cake.
  • But he was obsessively formal and had about as much liveliness as a salted cod, and Bahzell simply couldn't warm to him as he had to Charrow or Sir Terrian.
  • Box up and stow away any overspill of ornaments and act like an obsessively tidy person, neatly fold and put away until you've exchanged contracts.
  • He obsessively spent money he didn't have on books, and his bibliomania was the first great manifestation of his propensity to addiction - a hunger to consume that was 'absolutely endless and inexorable as the grave'. The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
  • They are often seen with flocks of chaffinches, who also feed on beechmast, though not so obsessively. Times, Sunday Times
  • It talks obsessively about freedom and rarely about security. Times, Sunday Times
  • She obsessively followed the two bands.
  • He uses footwork, sometimes obsessively, to work the space. Times, Sunday Times
  • He goes through phases where he focuses obsessively on one particular site.
  • Private cell phone records reveal mom, Casey, desperate to contact him in California, making late-night and early-morning calls obsessively, text messaging him every day during the time little Caylee goes missing. CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2008
  • Our lives, I obsessively told myself, were twisted together by fate.
  • Forget counting sheep - insomniacs count sleep, jealously, obsessively, the way some women count calories.
  • He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players like Wino Love, Warby Pepper, Heinie Twiett, Phegus Cody and Zagg Parker, who toiled on imaginary teams named either for cars (the Pittsburgh Plymouths and New York Chevvies, for example) or for colors (the Boston Grays and Cincinnati Blacks). Inside the Mind of Kerouac « Gerry Canavan
  • She played canasta obsessively and seemed to have endless folding tables.
  • Actress Alyssa Milano is now tweeting obsessively about Iran (via reader Laura). Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
  • Food got smaller, lighter and obsessively ethereal. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's chirpy, enthusiastic and obsessively neat - a bit of a goody-goody, in fact.
  • It seems to me that the Cabinet has an obsessively self-protective herd instinct which could be its undoing.
  • The Ministry is being obsessively secretive about the issue.
  • It is densely, sometimes opaquely written and has been obsessively researched for more than a decade. Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

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