canoodle

Example Sentences

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At times in “Hamnet,” 1582, the year of their marriage, could pass for a millennium earlier, a rustic era where neither has anything more pressing to do than canoodle under the trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

It wasn’t the Poconos’ fault people would rather backpack through Europe than canoodle in a heart-shaped hot tub in Pennsylvania.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

You’d canoodle with dumplings and spring rolls and sushi; and then, just as you were getting warmed up for a deeper commitment, the check would appear.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2015

A series of surreal illustrations features Adam and Eve feeding grapes to vegetarian dinosaurs while lions and cheetahs canoodle with an avaceratops.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2013

As they canoodle, Jef tells Emily that he dumped the last girl he brought he home because his parents didn’t like her.

From Time • Jun. 26, 2012