amorous

Example Sentences

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The results do not just overturn previous theories about amorous and peaceful meetings between groups of people.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

Her warm, even tone and clear diction became associated indelibly with the composer’s amorous page in the way that Kirsten Flagstad was with Isolde and Feodor Chaliapin with Boris Godunov.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2023

When she’s on the stage, you can’t take your eyes off her; whether she is being regal, amorous or crushed by betrayal, she commands the space as if she really were an enchantress.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023

This becomes the focus of the rom-com with no rom, which replaces the notion of an amorous happily ever after with self-empowerment, never betraying its tagline: "She's everything. He's just Ken."

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck