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

But her voice—slightly nasal, with conversational phrasing and clipped inflections informed by hip-hop—is instantly identifiable, and conveys intelligence and intimacy while sounding perfectly natural in glittery electronic productions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

But the piece is a more traditional coming-of-age drama, and it flourishes in the intimacy of the smaller venue.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

It takes long intimacy, long and familiar interliving, before one kind of creature can cause illness in another.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas