Sample Sentences for
sensuous
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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
  • 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
  • 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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  • Nicholson, looking detached, was using his right hand to give himself a slow, sensuous massage at the back of the neck.  (source)
    sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
  • All over the hall women danced sensuously, their arms above their heads, their hips swaying.  (source)
    sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
  • 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.
  • Or they take up religion, preferably one of the more sensuous Eastern religions.  (source)
    sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
  • 'Kill with me tonight,' she whispered as sensuously as a lover.†  (source)
  • Most of the women in the hall seemed cast from a specific type—decorative, precisely turned out, an odd mingling of untouchable sensuousness.†  (source)
  • Her caress lingered on his skin, sensuous yet completely innocent at once.  (source)
  • 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)
  • From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna's smile.†  (source)
  • His nature was purely sensuous, and she strove to make him moral, religious.  (source)
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