flirtation

Example Sentences

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Now that the flirtation with Warner is over, the shares are worth a look.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

And like most forms — poetry, cocktails, flirtation — they work best when people engage with them.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Jefferson carried on the flirtation following his emotional entanglement with Maria Cosway, a married artist and close friend of Angelica’s in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

After what Prunella described as "a mild Times crossword and Polo mints flirtation", they got together, and married in 1963.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Embedded in the history of the gene is “the quest for eternal youth, the Faustian myth of abrupt reversal of fortune, and our own century’s flirtation with the perfectibility of man.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee