SENSUAL in a Sentence

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They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual.

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 Meanings and Examples of SENSUAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sensual
 a.  physical rather than spiritual or intellectual; affecting any of senses or sense organ; sensory
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  He really reaped the fruits of the sensual satisfaction she got out of Michaelis' male passivity erect inside her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  She crept nearer to him, nearer, only to be near to the sensual wonder of him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  He was looking at her with an odd, flickering smile, faintly sensual and appreciative.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  Yet the passion licked round her, consuming, and when the sensual flame of it pressed through her bowels and breast, she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  She was her sensual self, naked and unashamed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  The efficient, sometimes charming women knew a thing or two about the sensual realities: they had that pull over their jigging English sisters.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  His brown face was bland and his mouth, red lipped, clear cut as a woman's, frankly sensual, smiled carelessly as he lifted her into the carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  His large hands, sensual lips, easy voice supported his self-confidence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  It was an elemental odor, raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual, and strong.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  There was still some gold in the thinning hair and some scarlet on the sensual mouth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
12  Presently the massive door of the cell opened to admit a tchinovnik named Samosvitov, a robust, sensual individual who was reputed by his comrades to be something of a rake.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
14  They had their pathetic, two-seconds spasms like Michaelis; but no healthy human sensuality, that warms the blood and freshens the whole being.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Though a little frightened, she let him have his way, and the reckless, shameless sensuality shook her to her foundations, stripped her to the very last, and made a different woman of her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  His hand slid from the back of her neck to circle the base of her throat, and her pulse leaped as her breasts tightened in sensual hunger.
2  Food is a great sensual experience.