osculate

Example Sentences

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She felt fortunate that Roman Catholic weddings don’t require the couple to “osculate,” a fancy word for kiss.

From New York Times

The depictions of make-out sessions, with actors seeming to osculate the lens, offer a clinical perspective.

From The New Yorker

It gleams and sparkles in the sunlight and invites lovers to enter and osculate.

From New York Times

In superconducting metals, atoms are aligned in such a way that their orbits tangentially osculate each other, thus allowing electrons to pass smoothly from one atom’s orbit to the next.

From Scientific American

When a point of such a curve is given, the osculating plane is determined, hence all the curves through a given point with the same tangent have the same torsion.

From Project Gutenberg