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
He acted his little comedy to the end—like the cockbird who has started his amatory dance to fascinate the timid hen, he was perhaps too busy to observe results till the dance had finished.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)
