intimacy

Example Sentences

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England’s coach, Thomas Tuchel, said in March that the team liked the city’s intimacy and players plan to spend their downtime there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"It's awful and you feel naked and open to attack because you worry about being rejected and maybe sometimes that will happen but when it doesn't that's where intimacy and close relationships start to grow."

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Alfredo intensifies his passion for Violetta in the next number—again a waltz-duet, slowed down to allow greater intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

You sense this in his work ethic and what it produces, an intimacy of form that implies an almost ritualistic attentiveness to the world around him on its own terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera