Romantic

//ɹoʊˈmæntɪk//

"Romantic" in a Sentence (22 examples)

I went to the South Pacific for a summer of romantic adventure.

Music started playing in the restaurant so there was a real romantic mood.

Bill just wanted to comfort Monica, but she interpreted it as romantic interest.

He, if anything, is the romantic type.

Whatever the origin is, Valentine's Day has had a long and romantic history.

I found the film romantic.

The poet Keats belongs to the Romantic school.

Young people can recognize this about romantic love, but they find it hard to accept the same fierce element in parental affection.

He was something of a poet and used to write romantic poems.

He's a very romantic boyfriend who brings me flowers each night.

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Mary sighed, knowing her ideals were far too romantic to work in reality.

R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions. B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G. R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir. B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W? R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.

But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.

Somehow she wasn't a real sister, but that only made her the more romantic.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

Their kiss started casually, but it slowly turned romantic.

Contrary to the popular perception that love typically sparks from passion, a new study finds two-thirds of romantic relationships begin as long-term friendships.

Elsewhere, I describe that, in addition to an asexual identity, another salient identity for asexual individuals may be a romantic or aromantic identity, which designates an interest (or lack thereof) in monogamous, intimate relationships (Scherrer, 2008).

What is relatively “new” is the formation of communities around the common language of asexuality as it is understood today—communities in which new categories exist around the concept of asexuality or “being ace,” where people can discuss romantic or aromantic orientations in relation to or apart from sexual desires or non-desires.

Grayromantic asexual people are between romantic and aromantic and less likely to experience romantic attraction compared to most people.

Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.

Kaldor is an interesting lyricist, and it is easy to identify with her imagery. She's also an unabashed romantic of the most extreme kind, with lines like "For we can talk without speaking/we can see without light/I'll never leave you...."

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