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Example sentences for "intimate"

Lexicographically close words:
intil; intill; intima; intimacies; intimacy; intimated; intimately; intimates; intimating; intimation
  1. Mr. Edgerton is made to feel that no syllable of his disclosures will ever be repeated, under any circumstances, even to the most intimate of his friends or the most nearly related of his family.

  2. All who are intimate with Coleridge must remember the fits of genial animation which were created continually in his manner and in his buoyancy of thought by a recent or an extra dose of the omnipotent drug.

  3. Doubtless to his mood of elation or depression, and to his quick and intimate response to the wild life round him, we owe those clear impressions that connect certain scenes and phases of our life with his more familiar utterances.

  4. From an intimate acquaintance with the first edition, we should cordially recommend these volumes to those who wish to take a general survey of this department of human learning.

  5. He will totally neglect an intimate friend for months, then let fly at him epistle after epistle, and then give no sign of life for a long while again.

  6. There are those who indite elegant notes to comparative strangers, but, probably upon the principle that familiarity breeds or should breed contempt, send the most villanous scrawls to their intimate friends and those of their own household.

  7. You must not appear in it; neither can I; for I am known to be your intimate friend.

  8. That it is delightful medium for social intercourse--part of the essential equipment for an intimate chat or more general assemblage of friends.

  9. He was very intimate with Roubiliac, who was an opposite eastern neighbour of Old Slaughter's.

  10. Beyond acquiring a general talking knowledge about coffees, the retailer buying his stocks roasted in bulk or package form does not generally need the intimate knowledge of his goods required by the grocer who roasts his own coffee.

  11. Parkson fixed himself upon Lewisham and Dunkerley, to Lewisham's intense annoyance--for he had a few intimate things he could have said to the man of Ideas that night.

  12. Then a water-vole washing his whiskers gave occasion for a sudden touching of hands and the intimate confidence of whispers and silence together.

  13. He was acutely conscious of the silence on the other side of the folding-doors, he kept up a succession of deliberate little noises, beat books together and brushed clothes, to intimate the resolute prosecution of his preparations.

  14. They shook hands in the manner of quite intimate friends, and snatched their hands away awkwardly.

  15. He alone of created things has an intimate knowledge of all live things' love affairs, from when Eve shook back her hair and lifted up her lips, to the last girl kissed in Japan.

  16. Six hundred and eighty miles seemed a long way to travel in winter, through a desolate land, only to tell your most intimate friend that you are not afraid of manitous and shades of the departed.

  17. And when the time comes to write a preface to the poem, he in a first draft makes confession to the public of his 'non-opinion of himself' in terms both a little too intimate and too fidgeting and uneasy.

  18. Bailey was intimate with John Hamilton Reynolds and his family, and at this time a suitor for the hand of his sister Marianne.

  19. But by this time Keats had become an established intimate in the Leigh Hunt household, and was constantly backwards and forwards between London and the Hampstead cottage.

  20. We became intimate on the spot, and I found the young poet's heart as warm as his imagination.

  21. His intimate friend Christie (afterwards principal in the John Scott duel) was working at the bar in London and wrote to Lockhart in January 1818 that he had met Keats and been favourably impressed by him.

  22. He did not care to have a stranger--and after all Martin was only a stranger--so intimate with his affairs.

  23. Hall appeared to have had no intimate friends who would be likely to recognize it, or rather the photograph in it.

  24. One morning when we had been married two years, I left the house to go to the office of one of my most intimate friends in the parish--a doctor who lived near us, who was unmarried, and who had prescribed now and then for my wife.

  25. It involves such intimate things--yet it makes all things clear, it makes everything so beautifully clear, Roger Poole.

  26. He had been for years the intimate friend and adviser of the Ballards, and it was at Mary's request that he was to stay to share in the coming conclave.

  27. These are the men and the women who see that it is the intimate and homely things that count most.

  28. She's not over intimate with him," said Gabriel, indignantly.

  29. Jean looked at the three men, who had taken it for granted that they might leave their intimate study of the clay bank and were coming toward her.

  30. There was another just beyond the sewing-machine, that gave an intimate look into the face of the bluff which formed that side of the coulee wall.

  31. She was his mother's cousin, and her most intimate friend; the old marquis entertained the most perfect friendship and esteem for Madame Georges.

  32. In fact, our relations became of the most intimate character, as far as was possible between any two persons who were so unlike in disposition and purposes.

  33. The intimate connection that once existed between the myths of the deluge and those of the creation is illustrated by the part assigned to birds in so many of them.

  34. In every country there is perceptible a desire in this class of men to surround themselves with mystery, and to concentrate and increase their power by forming an intimate alliance among themselves.

  35. The names of these directions and of the corresponding winds are often the same, and when not, there exists an intimate connection between them.

  36. Klaus Heinrich knew him--indeed, he might be said to have got to know him on a very intimate occasion.

  37. Nothing was omitted, from the impressive incident at the changing of the guard to the last intimate and distressing struggles on horseback and on foot.

  38. This room, situated at the side and in a corner of the suite of reception rooms, was Ditlinde's cabinet, her boudoir, the room in which she used to entertain quite intimate friends and to make tea with her own hands.

  39. You have no right to intimate confidences, and if you attempted them you yourself would discover that they did not suit you, would find them inadequate and insipid.

  40. The desire, the hope of understanding the Baron, of getting on to intimate and confidential terms with him, excited him.

  41. Intimate friend of his as she is, she would not dare ask people to meet him, if he had not first sanctioned the suggestion.

  42. We are his friends--his most intimate friends.

  43. During the weeks that followed, Diana became more or less an intimate at Adrienne's house in Somervell Street.

  44. Diana wondered whether the price of that mysterious something which lay in his past, and which not even intimate friendship had revealed to her, would mean that this comradeship must always remain only that--and never anything more?

  45. The wedding took place very quietly at Crailing, only a few intimate friends being asked to it.

  46. She apparently possessed some intimate knowledge of the affairs both of Max Errington and Adrienne de Gervais, and what she knew did not appear to be very favourable to either of them.

  47. There he became an intimate friend of the great Scipio.

  48. He was Catullus' intimate friend and is often mentioned with him.

  49. An intimate and trusted friend of the Czar, his Excellency had filled every office in his country that called for administrative and diplomatic talents of the first order.

  50. My most intimate friend was Baron Spaum—at the time naval attaché at the Austrian Embassy—and at the present moment Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Austrian Navy.

  51. Emile Regnault, then a medical student and the intimate friend and confidant of Jules Sandeau, who kept nothing back from him.

  52. Her intimate friends, inquisitive people and persons passing through Paris, have described their visits to her over and over again.

  53. After some target practice at the outer circle of their acquaintances, they turned their ill-natured shafts at their intimate friends.

  54. Rastignac being an intimate friend, Godefroid answered in a low voice, 'Well, so I was thinking.

  55. The intimate sense of his works was falsified in the century which followed his death by the English interpretations, strengthened further still in Germany by those of Mendelssohn, and his numerous following.

  56. It is necessary always to keep in view this intimate relation of the instrumental works of Handel with the rest of his music.

  57. Further, there is with his instrumental music, as with his vocal music, nearly always an intimate and picturesque expression.

  58. He was particularly intimate with Corelli, who lived with him.

  59. Have we relied on one corrupt party newspaper, as you intimate is our habit?


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intimate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; acquaintance; advocate; allegorize; allied; amigo; amount; announce; anonymous; approaching; approximate; assembled; associate; associated; assume; augur; backer; bosom; bound; brother; burning; central; certain; chatty; cheerful; cheery; close; closet; clue; collected; comfortable; concrete; confidant; confide; confidential; connected; connote; coupled; cozy; deep; defined; definite; detailed; determinate; different; distinct; distinguished; drive; elemental; entail; esoteric; especial; exceptional; express; extraordinary; familiar; fellow; fellowman; fixed; friend; friendly; gathered; gossip; great; gut; hint; homelike; homely; homey; hot; impart; implicate; imply; import; impute; incognito; incorporated; indicate; individual; individualistic; infer; inherent; inmost; inner; innermost; inseparable; inside; insinuate; integrated; interior; internal; intimate; intrinsic; involve; inward; isolated; joined; knotted; leagued; linked; lover; make; matched; mate; mated; mean; mention; merged; minute; near; nearing; neighbor; nigh; noteworthy; notify; paired; partake; particular; partisan; peaceful; personal; pickup; plain; precise; predict; presume; presuppose; private; privy; prompt; proximate; remind; repository; respective; retired; rumor; secluded; seem; sequestered; several; signify; simple; singular; snug; sociable; special; specific; spicy; spliced; suggest; supporter; suppose; sympathizer; tell; thick; tied; undivided; united; visceral; warm; wedded; withdrawn; yoked


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    intimate acquaintance; intimate friend; intimate friends; intimate knowledge