sensuous

Example Sentences

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Geometry competes with sensuous paint-handling and lush color.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

From dressing rooms, young Dario watched his photographer mother, Elda Luxardo, capture Italian divas, including Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, in sensuous black-and-white portraits.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Zhang evokes the sensuous delight of working with fresh ingredients in a time when certain flavors are essentially extinct.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023

Though written on the eve of a cataclysmic war, the piece is dreamy, sensuous, mesmeric — and deliciously detailed as only Ravel can be.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald