Sample Sentences for
sensuous
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    I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it — overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.  (source)
    sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the mind
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    The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees.  (source)
    sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
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    All over the hall women danced sensuously, their arms above their heads, their hips swaying.  (source)
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    As she turned toward me, I pulled her near me and our lips touched, a light contact, but driven by sensuous quest.  (source)
    sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
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    'Kill with me tonight,' she whispered as sensuously as a lover.†  (source)
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    Little love, not here, but a steady undercurrent of sensuousness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Nicholson, looking detached, was using his right hand to give himself a slow, sensuous massage at the back of the neck.  (source)
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    By contrast it made me almost weak to see the way Yasuda-san, with his graceful, sculpted arm, put a bite of braised beef into his mouth with his lips parted sensuously.†  (source)
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    Most of the women in the hall seemed cast from a specific type—decorative, precisely turned out, an odd mingling of untouchable sensuousness.†  (source)
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    Or they take up religion, preferably one of the more sensuous Eastern religions.  (source)
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    He liked to encircle her ankle loosely with his fingers as he played cards with Nately, Dunbar and Hungry Joe, to lightly and lovingly caress the downy skin of her fair, smooth thigh with the backs of his nails or, dreamily, sensuously, almost unconsciously, slide his proprietary, respectful hand up the shell-like ridge of her spine beneath the elastic strap of the top of the two-piece bathing suit she always wore to contain and cover her tiny, long-nippled breasts.†  (source)
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    From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna's smile.†  (source)
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    Her caress lingered on his skin, sensuous yet completely innocent at once.  (source)
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