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How to use erotic in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Erotic means relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement. Example: “I had an erotic dream last night.”

Examples of erotic by meaning

adjectiveRelating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

  • erotic entertainment and services
  • I had an erotic dream last night.
  • There's a local cinema that only shows erotic movies.

More sentences with erotic

  • The sunderable part of Christ gives the erotic impulse to the human being.2011, Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled, →ISBN. From the entry sunderable
  • And yet, for all her erotic poses, skimpy outfits and well-oiled limbs, Mrs.2007 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, “New Girl in Town Gets Settled With Hubby”, in New York Times. From the entry unsensual
  • The theme of this channel is hypnoseduction, the style of sensual erotic hypnosis.1999, Richard Hopkins, “hypnoeroticafe”, in alt.hypnosis (Usenet). From the entry hypnoseduction
  • With Connie, he’s blissfully free from erotic expectation; he’s humbled by Ellen’s goodness.1993 April 30, Peter Rainer, “MOVIE REVIEW : A Sugarcoated ‘Three of Hearts’”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles…. From the entry sweetie-pie
  • Can you take him home and enjoy an erotic evening without worry?1986 December 14, E. G. Martin, “Hot & Healthy: A Second Coming Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 7. From the entry humjob
  • Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry philiac
  • In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42. From the entry beet
  • Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 135. From the entry lard
  • Milk of chameleon was recommended as an erotic stimulant by Avicenna.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 59. From the entry chameleon
  • Children show erotic ties to parents and brothers and sisters, though not before 4–6 years of age.1922, International Medical and Surgical Survey: Urology. From the entry incestophilia
  • In my erotic romances, I take time to discover the lives of the people involved before the action starts.2021, SM Flint, Devotion and Duty. From the entry guns and roses
  • And instead of bringing shame to it, we should be bringing compassion and—goddexx forbid!—some humor to our erotic lives.2021, Lucie Field, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, unnumbered page. From the entry goddexx
  • Pony fanfiction is common, with “clop-fic” delving into erotic tales.2018 April, Dale Peeples, Jennifer Yen, Paul Weigle, “Geeks, Fandoms, and Social Engagement”, in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clincs…. From the entry clopfic
  • “Yes, eet was a, an amusing erotic trifle, I supposa.2015 February 15, “Tobacco”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry tame
  • For example, my first exposure to an erotic outlier was with a hebephilic pygophile who also had a touch of frotteurism.2013, Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry pygophile
  • The hammams or Turkish saunas, decorated most un-Islamically with erotic mosaics, paintings, or statues, were a meeting point for many homosexuals.2010 September 30, Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, →ISBN. From the entry un-Islamically
  • Henry Spencer Ashbee, the leading nineteenth-century bibliographer of erotic and semierotic literature, estimated that Thompson had written nearly a hundred books.2009, Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, →ISBN. From the entry semierotic
  • This is a curious book about far more "curious and uncommon books"; kruptadia, forbidden erotic literature "of an incandescent kind".2001 June 15, Lord Biggs, Times Higher Education. From the entry kruptadia
  • In the asexual or analloerotic transsexual autogynephilia does not lead to erotic attractions, either to women or to men.1997, Cornelis Dirk Doorn, Towards a gender identity theory of transsexualism, Vrije Universiteit, page 7. From the entry analloerotic
  • Has a nice, erotic touch to it.1992, John Grisham, The Pelican Brief, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry darby
  • But the buttocks of the Kritios Boy have a feminine refinement, as erotic as breasts in Venetian painting.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadance from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, London; New Haven, Conn.: Yale Nota Bene, Yale…. From the entry contrapposto
  • And we're all involved in a lowdown — but eminently "Safe" — celebration of the erotic possibilities of the male body.1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11. From the entry lowdown
  • It's not erotic but it is openhearted.1983 December, Terence McKenna, “Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness”, in The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic…. From the entry machine elf
  • The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49. From the entry brain
  • In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 125. From the entry frigid
  • The mimes were packed with lascivious gestures and movements, and usually presented erotic scenes, on occasion farcically treated.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209. From the entry mime
  • Often the guests, affected by the wine drinking, released all inhibitions and made erotic overtures, particularly to the slave cup-bearers.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 230. From the entry cup-bearer
  • The physiological state is not itself militant against erotic expression.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 6. From the entry militant
  • La Fontaine, the French fabulist, has a tale, La Mandragore, dealing with the erotic impact of the root.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223. From the entry fabulist
  • He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness.1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair. From the entry necrophile
  • USA Today called it an “erotic workout video.” Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of “Morning Joe,” declared that she could not “unsee” it.2026 February 20, Katie Rogers, “Bench Presses, Pull Ups … Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry unsee
  • So great is the advantage “erotic capital” can bring to the labour market—especially in sport, the arts, media and advertising—that it often outweighs educational qualifications.2010 April, Prospect: Politics, Essay, Review, →ISSN, page 23. From the entry erotic capital
  • Yet even as he stood as a not-so-benign emblem of black power, erotic and otherwise, the hypersexualized black male also became fodder for white exploitation.2009 January 18, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “How the Movies Made a President”, in New York Times. From the entry hypersexualize
  • Technically the erotic obsession with such large women is labeled "macrophilia," but it is more commonly referred to as simply "GTS," short for giantess.2006, Dominique Mainon, James Ursini, Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen. From the entry GTS
  • On "Promiscuous" and "Maneater," Furtado shades her hollaback sass with erotic menace, and on "Glow" she marries new wave and hip-hop like Debbie Harry redux.2006 June, “Funky Mother”, in SPIN, volume 22, number 6, page 84. From the entry hollaback
  • Although not all Taiwanese men are so inclined, there are ample opportunities for men to seek erotic pleasure outside of marriage in Taiwan.2004, Scott Simon, “From Hidden Kingdom to Rainbow Community: The Making of Gay and Lesbian Identity in Taiwan”, in David K. Jordan…. From the entry Taibei
  • They're marvellous (the erotic e-mail is the new love letter) and totally rubbish (it takes three hours to turn the printer on).1999 July 25, Cayte Williams, “Why won't my !@*!!@ machine work?”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 13 Aug 2015. From the entry can't live with them, can't live without them

Meaning of erotic

  1. adjective Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
  2. noun An amorous composition or poem.

Full definition of erotic

Questions about erotic in a sentence

How do you use erotic in a sentence?
Erotic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I had an erotic dream last night.”
What is a short sentence with erotic?
“erotic entertainment and services”
What does erotic mean?
Erotic means relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

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