amorous
Example Sentences
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Omid, whose English surpasses Marjan’s own level, has excited such hopes, and the touchingly Chekhovian quasi-romance between them adds a gentle note of amorous wistfulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The results do not just overturn previous theories about amorous and peaceful meetings between groups of people.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
Her breakthrough role was as the amorous mermaid in the title of the 1948 hit comedy “Miranda.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024
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
Vocabulary lists containing amorous
All You Need is Love: Amor and Phil
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Romeo and Juliet
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"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
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