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lovemaking

[luhv-mey-king] / ˈlʌvˌmeɪ kɪŋ /


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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

Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

Douglas, Jr., had rather a thin and weakling play on which to test his histrionic sinews; yet, seasoned by a good cast and gloriously spared the sickly meringue of lovemaking, it sufficed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The beautiful gallery which the bridge supports must have known much gayety; much dancing and promenading up and down; much lovemaking and some heartache.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine




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