INTIMATE in a Sentence

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For INTIMATE, below is one of 216 sentences:
She refused to confide even in Hilda, and Hilda, offended by her steady silence, had become rather intimate with a Dutch woman.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTIMATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intimate
 v.  give to understand; imply as a possibility; make known subtly and indirectly
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  More than once they lost their way, but Hope's intimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track once more.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  So they had given the gift of themselves, each to the youth with whom she had the most subtle and intimate arguments.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  He was at once too intimate with her and not intimate enough.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  They were so intimate, and utterly out of touch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  I don't see how they can love them without talking, and being friendly and intimate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  I like talking to them; but talking to them, though it makes me intimate in one direction, sets me poles apart from them as far as kissing is concerned.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  She had to help him in all the intimate things, for he had no man, and refused a woman-servant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  But he still wanted the old intimate evenings of talk with Connie: talk or reading aloud.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  She refused to confide even in Hilda, and Hilda, offended by her steady silence, had become rather intimate with a Dutch woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  But Miss Bertram does not care three straws for him; that is your opinion of your intimate friend.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  His sister, moreover, is your intimate friend, and he has been doing that for your brother, which I should suppose would have been almost sufficient recommendation to you, had there been no other.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Mrs. Fraser has been my intimate friend for years.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  'He doats on it, your worship,' replied Bumble; giving Oliver a sly pinch, to intimate that he had better not say he didn't.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The young gentleman smiled, as if to intimate that the latter fragments of discourse were playfully ironical; and finished the beer as he did so.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Speaking in silence is the most intimate communication two beings can achieve.
2  This is an intimate knowledge of African religions.
3  He has an intimate knowledge of American literature.
4  I discussed with my intimate friends whether I would immediately have a baby.
5  Both of them felt that they had become very intimate.
6  The collection has been moved from its intimate setting to the British Museum.
7  He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.
8  She complained that intimate aspects of her personal life had been made public property.
9  The restaurant has a very intimate atmosphere.
10  The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
11  Did Dick intimate that Jane had bad breath when he asked if she'd like a breath mint?
12  It commanded its followers to be reticent � to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public.
13  The history of tobacco growing is intimately associated with colonialism and slavery.
14  You have to be willing to get to know yourself and your partner intimately.
15  It's instead that the media is beginning to understand beauty as a holistic proposition—something that is intimately connected to health.