amatory
Example Sentences
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Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
With what “late-assembled court of morals”? “Biography is a collection of holes tied together with string, and nowhere more so than with the sexual and amatory life,” he writes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
The contest precipitates a flurry of events: literary, amatory, monetary and minatory.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2017
To be hopelessly in love with someone who will never love you back can seem like the amatory equivalent of waterboarding – a continual feeling of emotional suffocation, without even the promise of death's release.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2011
Dr. Nott is in trepidation for the domestic morality of the noble poet; yet some of these amatory sonnets may have been addressed to his betrothed.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
