Intimate

//ˈɪn.tɪ.mət//

"Intimate" in a Sentence (25 examples)

Choose such friends as will benefit you, they say. That is why I am on intimate terms with Mr Aoki.

That topic is too intimate to share with casual acquaintances.

This party is an intimate gathering.

The two boys became intimate friends at the camp.

My acquaintance introduced me to his intimate fellows.

Also as they are in an intimate relationship they are in a situation where it is easy for them to suffer from violence and difficult for them to bring complaints about that to court.

After the murder, they had an intimate conversation.

Why can't shape be an intimate attribute of matter?

English used to have two forms for "you," one intimate and one "polite." No more. But where status matters, and a deferential address is called for, the third person is pressed into service; and the headwaiter asks, "Does the gentleman want a table?"

There are more intimate elements.

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an intimate friend

He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.

She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.

The man, who had been arrested for being intimate with a donkey, admitted the conduct in question but claimed that the donkey had not been a donkey when he met her at a nightclub last Saturday night, but rather a prostitute.

an intimate setting

The candidate showed an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of politics.

Grélard et al.⁸⁷ determined the intimate structure of pseudoviral particles of hepatitis B subvirus using solid-state NMR, light scattering, and cryo-electron microscopy.

Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.

Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.

You'll find bras and panties in the intimates section upstairs.

He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.

One of our friends, nevertheless—the younger one—intimated that he felt a disposition to interrupt a few of these soft familiarities; but his companion observed, pertinently enough, that he had better be careful.

[…]Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.

He feels deeply betrayed by his MAGA supporters who believed him when he intimated during the campaign that something was nefarious about the government’s handling of the [Epstein] case, and who now have a hard time believing him when he says their suspicions are actually bogus.

I will intimate you when the details are available.

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