amatory

Example Sentences

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Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.

From Los Angeles Times

Living in daylight, the butterflies exchanged the drab, brown livery of many nighttime moths for a rich palette of colors, useful for broadcasting amatory signals to mates and warnings of toxicity to predators.

From New York Times

The contest precipitates a flurry of events: literary, amatory, monetary and minatory.

From Seattle Times

Even the pair’s eventual accommodation to this amatory obstacle succumbs to the prince’s other big difference from his fellow men: his immortality.

From Seattle Times

Meanwhile, her romantic engagement with an archivist in the house of an up‑and-coming magistrate adds both an amatory and a political dimension to the tale.

From The Guardian