How to Use amorous in a Sentence

amorous

adjective
  • This could be one of the most romantic, amorous nights of the year!
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 2024-12-19
  • If that's the case, and this sort of text gets your heart racing in an amorous way, good on you.
    — Lodro Rinzler, Marie Claire, 2014-01-03
  • Feel the jolt, a fish biting the line of first amorous interest.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2021-03-18
  • Cocaine Bear then cuts to an amorous pair of hikers in the woods below.
    — WIRED, 2023-02-24
  • The pair have an amorous meeting that will have consequences for the rest of the season.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • For amorous moments, choose fragrances that pull you in, but don’t overpower.
    — Kate Donovan, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The island’s fjords, which once resounded with the booming calls of amorous males, fell silent.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 2017-09-13
  • So, my first trip to Europe would be in the role of daughter-in-law and not that of amorous young wife.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 2017-04-19
  • John Patrick Shanley's tale of Irish farmers, one shy, one amorous.
    — Philly.com, 2017-10-29
  • During the dry season, the forest is a refuge for amorous elephants who come in from the plains nearby to breed.
    — The Economist, 2018-03-28
  • But past royal visits to Washington have sometimes gone awry − from amorous muskrats to a talking hat.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Art of Love, the Roman poet Ovid offers some words of advice to the amorous.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 2017-02-13
  • Crew members are trained to deal with troublesome passengers like amorous or entitled couples.
    — Christopher Elliott, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • There’s an official battle, a backwoods kerfuffle, and some amorous activity on the side.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Venus forms a conjunction to the sun in Capricorn, highlighting our amorous inclinations.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The talk of the talk show hosts' gathering included the state of late-night television, amorous encounters with guests and one high-profile hate-watcher.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • This particular celestial encounter happens once a year, so use it to your advantage by setting amorous intentions.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If the male tarantula is successful in his amorous pursuits, he may be attacked, killed and eaten by the female, although current research suggests that is not as common as once thought.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Service, on my visits, was a bit spacey, but it’s been tightening up; the tone of the place seems to be in progress, too, oscillating between that of a neighborhood joint, an amorous date-night nook, and a sceney hot spot.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In a new study published in March, a team of scientists from Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium used conch hops to calculate just how much space an amorous herd of conch need to mate.
    — Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • By wagering money, bettors are setting the odds on the amorous relationships of high-profile figures, from Zendaya to Katy Perry.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Cupid will be on the prowl this Valentine's Day weekend, hunting down potential targets to unleash a volley of amorous arrows onto unsuspecting mortals.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The purpose was to have amorous entanglements with several chatbots simultaneously.
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lovebugs — the annoying, gooey black insects that splatter on your car’s windshield and grille while in an amorous embrace — have returned in mass numbers this month after recent concerns by experts that the bugs may have been headed for extinction.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • In the bawdy comedic scene, Tommy wakes up au natural in his hotel bed after an amorous evening with his wife, Angela Norris (Ali Larter), to find a shocked housekeeper in the hotel room.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • For Proust—who may have met Wilde and even been the subject of the older man’s amorous attention (though accounts of their meeting or meetings could be apocryphal)—his downfall showed that life featured far keener sorrows than those encountered in books.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Omid, whose English surpasses Marjan’s own level, has excited such hopes, and the touchingly Chekhovian quasi-romance between them adds a gentle note of amorous wistfulness.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The amorous couple abandoned their spouses, children, and lives (and Wright his practice) in 1909 to spend a year together in Europe before relocating to Taliesin in 1911.
    — Carrie Hojnicki, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
  • In their letter, the faculty committee said not only would potential conflicts of interest arise in the impartiality of future tenure decisions and other professional development opportunities, but in the development and approval of the pending revision of the amorous relationship policy.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • Continuing Jodie Mack’s (The Grand Bizarre, NYFF56) long-term project of animating alternative materials, Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love is an ecstatic and visceral reflection on temporality, both human and botanical, an amorous affirmation of death and life.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025

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