amorous

in a sentence

According to the study, men who are shown pictures of a women in a red dress want to ask her more amorous questions than men shown pictures of the same woman in green dress.

It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described.  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

"You bet I will!" said Martin, according to the rules for amorous discourse in the University of Winnemac.  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

It was merely stated that the criminal, whose approaching trial was making such a sensation—retired army captain, an idle swaggerer, and reactionary bully—was continually involved in amorous intrigues, and particularly popular with certain ladies "who were pining in solitude."  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

She drew a deep, smiling, contented breath and regarded him amorously with a melting gaze.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

There remained only those rare periods of amorousness which still came to them at times but did not last long.†  (source) Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych, 1886

The next morning he saw Albert pass and repass, holding an enormous bouquet, which he doubtless meant to make the bearer of his amorous epistle.  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

PAPILLON: [joking amorously and caressing DAISY'S cheek] I'll take you in my arms and we'll float down together.†  (source) Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros, 1959

And at the very same time he represented physical as well as mental attributes which were agreeable to her—amorousness without the courage at the time, anyhow, to annoy her too much; reverence which yet included her as a very human being; a mental and physical animation which quite matched and companioned her own.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

After an ineffectual clutch, intended to detain and carry them to his lips, old Arthur gave his own fingers a mumbling kiss, and with many amorous distortions of visage went in pursuit of his friend, who was by this time in the street.  (source) Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839

I hardly fit into a cradle anymore, and anyone who'd believe we were amorously involved has to be crazy, but Sounis probably will hear it and believe it.†  (source) Megan Whalen Turner, Queen of Attolia, 2000

The only way I could conceive, in my blood-loaded, picturesque amorousness.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

Sometimes there would be couples, arm in arm — laughing, happy, amorous.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000