INTIMACY in a Sentence

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90 example sentences for INTIMACY, such as:

1. I wanted a complete intimacy, and I didn't get it.
2. No, the intimacy was deeper, more personal than that.
3. A writer must develop an intimacy with the subject at hand.
4. Jokes establish an intimacy between the teller and the hearer.
5. Again, with the entire album, intimacy is a word that rings true.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTIMACY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intimacy
 n.  closeness, often affectionate; privacy; familiarity
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a better colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
2  I shall not associate him in our conversation with your intimacy and encouragement; pray do not persist in connecting him with mine.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
3  And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  No, the intimacy was deeper, more personal than that.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  it perfects the intimacy, said Clifford, uneasy as a woman in such talk.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became utterly blank and nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  It killed, he said to himself, the real flower of the intimacy between him and her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  But for all that, it was evident that when he was with her his voice dropped to an easy rhythm of intimacy, almost a trifle vulgar.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  The miners' cottages, blackened, stood flush on the pavement, with that intimacy and smallness of colliers' dwellings over a hundred years old.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I've never met the man yet who was capable of intimacy with a woman, giving himself up to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  I wanted a complete intimacy, and I didn't get it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  Connie hated these rather stifling intimacies between women, intimacy into which Hilda always entered ponderously.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  His intimacy with Japan makes him the likely choice as ambassador to that country.
2  The borderline between friendship and intimacy is often hard to define.
3  A writer must develop an intimacy with the subject at hand.
4  Jokes establish an intimacy between the teller and the hearer.
5  She still ached for the lost intimacy and sexual contact of marriage.
6  Again, with the entire album, intimacy is a word that rings true.