intimates
Example Sentences
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“What we saw from Cafeteria was how important comfort was, so we’ve continued to focus on casuals and sweats, as well as sleepwear and intimates with that in mind,” Phillips said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
These are intentionally not the Kennedy family’s stories or takes from their intimates, but the people who had enough of a professional closeness to be at hand when the assassination happened.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023
“I look happy, but only in old photos,” Benito intimates in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
“There is something in a landscape like that which humbles you and intimates to you that there’s something very big out there, and this thing has an awful lot of power,” says Lindahl.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 13, 2023
In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
