romancing

Example Sentences

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Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

It’s part of a larger pattern of romancing younger men on the national and international stage, often ones he has attacked.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Shortly thereafter, they offered him a job as what amounts to an ambassador of edge, romancing what’s bubbling up and dousing it in the world of swoosh.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

Katie was annoyed at this tendency and kept warning Francie to tell the plain truth and to stop romancing.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith