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Example sentences for "intimates"

Lexicographically close words:
intimacies; intimacy; intimate; intimated; intimately; intimating; intimation; intimations; intime; intimidate
  1. None of Lamb's intimates were persons of title or fashion, or of any political importance.

  2. At that time the number of Lamb's old intimates was gradually diminished.

  3. In conversation he loved to discuss persons or books, and seldom ventured upon the stormy sea of politics; his intimates lying on the two opposite shores, Liberal and Tory.

  4. He expresses this idea in still stronger terms when he intimates that Mr. Smith had a principal agency in the misconduct on this occasion.

  5. But the gentleman intimates that the politics of Maryland have undergone a great change, and that the party formerly uppermost, is now under.

  6. He swells visibly, and intimates that he will pay Raoul out for this in various highly unpleasant ways.

  7. He intimates that the person at the Bovril stall has it.

  8. And elsewhere he intimates that what the minstrels sometimes gained from the lavish generosity of their hearers, soon passed away at the tavern in dice and drinking.

  9. Erasmus intimates that the superstitious follies had become permanent, because they were profitable.

  10. Our common intimacies made us intimates for all practical purposes.

  11. It intimates that the pains occasioned in the wicked, by the warnings of the faithful are the same, in kind, as those of the damned, and that they are often severe.

  12. Those for whom no provision was made, would be in like state with persons who have committed the sin unto death, for whom St. John intimates prayer is not to be offered up.

  13. The street seems always a sort of home to me, full of images and memories of members of my family and their intimates who visited us there.

  14. Her familiar style of language among her intimates was something that could only be believed by those who heard it; it was technical to a degree that was amazing.

  15. The special and reportable sallies of Sydney Smith have been, of course, often repeated, but the fanciful fun and inexhaustible humorous drollery of his conversation among his intimates can never be adequately rendered or reproduced.

  16. He intimates that he had already made the experiment, but without success.

  17. On the twelfth, of May he intimates to his Mira that he has dreams of success in something different, something more human than had yet engaged his thoughts.

  18. He there intimates that after Burke had generously assisted him in other ways, besides enabling him to publish The Library, the question had been discussed of Crabbe's future calling.

  19. He intimates here that his object was not merely "gain of money.

  20. She intimates that she should not wonder should Augusta grow weary of the office.

  21. In Italy, under bluer skies, and among a gentler people, with more tolerant modes of judgment, the authoress intimates that he found peace and consolation.

  22. Two things are very evident in this correspondence: Lady Byron intimates that, if he publishes his story, some consequences must follow which she shall regret.

  23. The 'Quarterly' simply intimates that such suits would have been unpleasant.

  24. The Mahawanso intimates that the priests themselves protested against this debasement, ch.

  25. While these twain were buzzing about enjoying themselves, their intimates often called them the Busy Bugbees.

  26. But those intimates were the first to notice that as soon as he entered the room those optimisms of his were adroitly respected.

  27. Madame de Netteville allowed herself plenty of jests with her intimates as to the young reformer's social simplicity, his dreams, his optimisms.

  28. It intimates that Milton did not consider his education, for the purposes he had in view, as anything like complete.

  29. Paget, exhaust the scanty list of Milton's intimates during this period.

  30. Owing to these circumstances, the circle of Milton's intimates contains few, and those undistinguished names.

  31. Swedenborg himself attributed his remarkable faculties to the development of a sixth sense, and intimates that in time all men will be so equipped.

  32. Should she be out, she intimates an appointment will be made for next day.

  33. He intimates also that I am to paint a picture annually for him.

  34. This intimates a long and close connection between the body and the under garment.

  35. Dr Pott intimates that scharos, a globe, may be identical with sherro, a head.

  36. Moses thus intimates that Noah had been tossed on the water so long that God seemed to have forgotten him altogether.

  37. Seth, accordingly, intimates that at that time there was some persecution or affliction of the Church.

  38. While Moses does not touch upon all these things, he intimates enough to arouse in the reader a desire to dwell upon the noteworthy events which the absence of detailed information permits us to survey only from a distance.

  39. However, the price then fell yet lower and one of his intimates said to him, "Thou hast no luck in this wheat; so do thou sell it at whatsoever price.

  40. She had found her profit not in the gross device of borrowing money, but in the more refined idea of introducing one of her intimates to the young woman's fresh and ingenuous fortune.

  41. This last fact increases the suspicion as to Pompey's wishes: for it was noticed that Pompey's intimates agreed with Volcatius.

  42. The minister who took upon him to pronounce Burns a single man, as he intimates in this letter, was the Rev.

  43. To the memory of Mary Campbell he dedicated that touching ode; and he thus intimates the continuance of his early affection for "The fair haired lass of the west," in a letter of that time to Mrs. Dunlop.

  44. Burns, when he calls on the bards of Ayr and Doon to join in the lament for Mailie, intimates that he regards himself as a poet.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intimates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.