foreplay

Example Sentences

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If the words Honey, take out the trash! are your idea of foreplay, you know that running our domestic lives sometimes saps the fun out of relationships.

From Time

The specimen that forms the core of the description is gorgeous, with dark grey bones preserved in exquisite detail, and that palaeontological happenstance is what has set off the hubbub over tyrannosaur foreplay.

From The Guardian

A main character dies, and after 16 hours of foreplay The Walking Dead has the arrogance to not even show the audience who it was.

From The Verge

No foreplay of nuanced chitchat here, just a relentless barrage of aspersions, which led me to the thought: Do I really believe these people sneering their way through this evening?

From New York Times

To be clear, nothing in this movie makes any kind of emotional sense; there is zero narrative foreplay.

From Slate