intimacy

Example Sentences

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England’s coach, Thomas Tuchel, said in March that the team liked the city’s intimacy and players plan to spend their downtime there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Burden internalized this pattern, of foregrounding the importance of the paterfamilias at the expense of real intimacy, of keeping up appearances despite the private pain.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Sinatra’s idea, however, was to start with love songs and put them into a swinging, danceable tempo, but at the same time to retain their intrinsic intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"It's awful and you feel naked and open to attack because you worry about being rejected and maybe sometimes that will happen but when it doesn't that's where intimacy and close relationships start to grow."

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

In a rare mood of intimacy Judith linked arms with Kit as they set out along High Street to gather the last of the corn in the meadow.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare