courtship

Example Sentences

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The gleam of a cellphone or a car’s headlights also can throw off the courtship ritual by distracting the bugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Surely the Ritz Cinema is the theater Herriot describes as he begins his courtship of Helen Alderson; a blue circle marker proudly declares its date of establishment as a picture house, 1912.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

He remembered meeting her in late summer, in a whirlwind courtship that he described as a Hallmark movie.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

And that courtship is likely to start again this season.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

So it continued, a slow courtship on both parts, until within a few minutes, Otto was grooming them, the boys giggling as he ran his fingers over their scalps.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer