Example Sentences

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His mind slalomed elegantly through the intimacies of his body, his marriages and his neighborhood, but never through ideology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2025

What is it like when you travel with someone and you fart in front of them for the first time, or they see you brushing your teeth and all of these intimacies?

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2024

He wanted to tell her something about himself, too, wanted to exchange small kernels of intimacies with her.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie