masochist

in a sentence

She wasn't a masochist, she was no saint.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.†  (source) Ally Condie, Matched, 2010

Like you said —" My dad had a taste for masochism, the overblown gesture; on our Sundays together he loved to exaggerate his misfortunes, groaning and staggering, complaining loudly of being 'wiped out' or 'destroyed' after a lost game even as he'd won half a dozen others and was totting up the profits on the calculator.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Going to the wedding of an ex seemed a masochistic att at the best of times, but to go to a public gathering, one that would be full of his old friends and work colleagues, to watch her marry his former friend, seemed to me a surefire route to depression.†  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

Was I a masochist, who wanted to relieve the agony I'd inflicted?†  (source) Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road, 2001

But it was not masochism which brought either the first colonists or Sol and his family.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The idea came to me that my people may be a race of masochists and that not only was it our fate to live the poorest, roughest life but that we liked it like that.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

But he was masochistically pleased to see that the Mets were off to another superlatively cruddy start.†  (source) Stephen King, Cujo, 1981

Glendale, the team we had lost to, got bitter, masochistic attention on the roadrunner with scores in foot-high numerals, as they continued to win and move through the tournament.†  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations.†  (source) Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss, 2010

It's total masochism.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 2009

She hadn't returned to the Body Pump class again—people in there were obviously masochists—but she had started to keep a fairly regular routine at the gym.†  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Choice, 2007

His head was propped up just enough to rest uncomfortably, almost masochistically, against the very base of the headboard.†  (source) J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories, 1953