Sample Sentences forsensuous (editor-reviewed)
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She claims the tango as the most sensuous of dance forms.sensuous = pleasing to the physical senses (sexy)
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I made the bed with sensuous silk sheets.sensuous = pleasing to touch and see
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She plays the role of a sensuous young woman.sensuous = in touch with or pleasing to the physical senses (as contrasted to the intellect)
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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'Kill with me tonight,' she whispered as sensuously as a lover.† (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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Her caress lingered on his skin, sensuous yet completely innocent at once. (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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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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His nature was purely sensuous, and she strove to make him moral, religious. (source)
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