Sentence examples for obsessive hobby from inspiring English sources

"It is sort of an obsessive hobby for her — looking for places to live — and certainly not an obsession of mine," he said.

NEWSPAPER CARTOON CACHE Charles L. Howard, a railroad executive and inventor, had an obsessive hobby: He wrote to newspaper cartoonists asking for originals of their drawings and then framed the works for display at his office.

There is the interesting sidelight of the return of vinyl as a fetish of sorts - an expensive and obsessive hobby for audiophiles and fanatics.

I've been avoiding writing about Foldable.Me for a while because I find the process of paper craft to be in the realm of obsessive hobbies that require a degree of intensity and sufficiently unsweaty palms that I simply do not possess.

Many see twitching as an outcrop of the British fascination with "spotting" things – most notoriously, trainspotting, a hobby that involves the obsessive pursuit of seeing as many locomotives with your own eyes as humanly possible.

As with many obsessive fascinations, his hobby began by chance.

It was my first job in media, and it felt like an obsessive, ad-hoc hobby: one of us would post every forty-five minutes, and each day we'd run two or three short features.

Both have an obsessive interest in their hobby, which comes to dominate their lives; one is a fish bore, the other is a wine bore.

"It's my belief that none of this is an investment," Jonathan Gallen, a sports-memorabilia obsessive who supports his hobby by running a hedge fund, said the other day.

In fact, it has become an obsessive, 'round the clock hobby for a large segment of these individuals.

Mushing became recreational, one of those activities that meld sport, hobby, and life style into one obsessive pastime.