canoodling

Example Sentences

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Behind the scenes, away from all of the media rantings and ravings, and the cheap thrill it gives to revive the passé term canoodling, it is surely traumatic and sad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

A fan in the audience proposed to her shortly after photos of her and Trudeau canoodling on a yacht surfaced.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

We all deserve a zone of privacy — even canoodling co-anchors.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

Free fat-melting procedures, canoodling with private practice plastic surgeons—who was accepting this stuff?

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2022

I didn’t care if she’d spent all day canoodling with him; I didn’t care if she’d left because she was furious with me.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler