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

Despite the let-it-all-hang-out philosophy today, I still believe this desire for privacy is a general human feeling – look at the outraged squalls of celebrities who have been outed in some amatory misdoing or other.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012

The student of language finds the rich vocabulary of the fabliaux much more attractive to him than the conventionality of the serious religious and amatory poems of the same age.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various