lovemaking
Example Sentences
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His performance feels awkward at first—like Jason Biggs or Will Ferrell fretting about lovemaking and analysts in a late-era Woody Allen film—but it becomes more convincing as the play progresses, as does the play itself.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health."
From Time Magazine Archive
But the days are gone by wherein my lord-protector of the commonwealth of England was wont to go a lovemaking to Mrs. Fleetwood, with the Bible under his arm.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
