romancing

Example Sentences

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Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Minor love complications, as Lulu falls for Gordy even though Gordy is romancing Maizy, are only as knotty as noodles.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Shauna muses that she would have gone to Brown and written about Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf while romancing a floppy-haired boyfriend.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2022

Katie was annoyed at this tendency and kept warning Francie to tell the plain truth and to stop romancing.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith