lovemaking
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His performance feels awkward at first—like Jason Biggs or Will Ferrell fretting about lovemaking and analysts in a late-era Woody Allen film—but it becomes more convincing as the play progresses, as does the play itself.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018
In general Shaw was biologically cold: "My pockets are always full of the small change of lovemaking; but it is magic money, not real money."
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Rare Gal�pagos tortoises were coaxed to mate at the San Diego Zoo after keepers provided enough sand for them to dig their own "nests," the only place they apparently consider suitable for lovemaking.
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Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Good, sound sense is much amiss in lovemaking.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.