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How to use amorous in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective

Amorous means inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment. Example: “We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.”

Examples of amorous by meaning

adjectiveInclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

  • an amorous disposition
  • We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.

adjectiveIndicating love or sexual desire.

  • She kept making these amorous suggestions.
  • There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 218
  • When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139

adjectiveOf or relating to, or produced by, love.

  • She read me an amorous poem.

adjectiveAffected with love; in love; enamored.

  • He had been amorous of her since schooldays.

More sentences with amorous

  • The amorous couple were found copulating inside the car.From the entry copulate
  • But the post also rejects Patroclus as woobie, drawing attention to his amorous complicity in Achilles's crimes.2022, K. R. Moore, The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality, unnumbered page. From the entry woobie
  • Eskista is the dance of the Amharas, enhancing amorous repartee and expressing collective jubilation.2002 August 1, Frank Tenaille, Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry Ethiopian
  • She-male garter snakes exploit the amorous attentions of other males to warm up.2001, R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster, R. T. Mason, Benefits of female mimicry in snakes, in Nature (414, 267). From the entry shemale
  • Ornithological symbolism abounds in the romancero and usually serves an amorous or augurious function.1978, E. Michael Gerli, “El caballero de Olmedo and En París está doña Alda”, in Alva V[ernon] Ebersole, editor, Perspectivas de la…. From the entry augurious
  • In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 58. From the entry celery
  • "Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"1990, Honoré de Balzac, James Lewis May, Jean de Boschère, Ten droll tales, page 25. From the entry monk
  • I have already said that it would be absurd to discount the possibility of some curvetting and amorous play.1988, Octavio Paz, chapter 8, in Margaret Sayers Peden, transl., Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith, Harvard University Press, page 100. From the entry curvet
  • Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77. From the entry dove
  • In The Perfumed Garden, Nefzawi digressively but interestingly discusses, in great and curious detail, the amorous activities of animals.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 13. From the entry interestingly
  • A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202. From the entry drake
  • A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162. From the entry vigour
  • The scenework proves unsuccessful when Carmichael recalls not the source of her misandry but another episode of overacting, that of castratively biting off the moustache of an amorous man.2016, Leslie H. Abramson, Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship. From the entry misandry
  • The assumption that valuable relationships must be marital or amorous devalues friendships and other caring relationships, as recent manifestos by urban tribalists, quirkyalones, polyamorists, and asexuals have insisted.2012, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press…. From the entry solitudinousness

Meaning of amorous

  1. adjective Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
  2. adjective Indicating love or sexual desire.
  3. adjective Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

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Questions about amorous in a sentence

How do you use amorous in a sentence?
Amorous is used as an adjective. For example: “We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.”
What is a short sentence with amorous?
“an amorous disposition”
What does amorous mean?
Amorous means inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.

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