amorous
Example Sentences
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Flea, was a little boy, his attraction to the trumpet was all-consuming and amorous.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Daryl and Carol share a different bond, something more than family but not quite amorous.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2024
Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The results do not just overturn previous theories about amorous and peaceful meetings between groups of people.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing amorous
All You Need is Love: Amor and Phil
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Romeo and Juliet
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"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
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