How to Use courtship in a Sentence

courtship

noun
  • The male of the species often displays aggression during courtship.
  • They had a two-year courtship before marrying.
  • The pair’s courtship didn’t fly under the radar for long, of course.
    — Glamour, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There are various green flags that can show up in a courtship.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a courtship, then a mating, and then the pair raise their offspring.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Through it all, the growth of dating apps has changed how courtship is practiced.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Things just slowed down a bit since their courtship of Warner Bros.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The Padres and Melvin were able to keep their courtship under the radar.
    — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 1 Nov. 2021
  • After a courtship all over the map, the stars aligned for the proposal.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 28 June 2018
  • The show tells the story of a farm girl and her courtship with two rival suitors.
    — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The impulse to wonder and to pry is, of course, as old as courtship itself.
    — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Yet their courtship, which took place over the next six months, was intermittent.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
  • What your book does so well is catch up to modern courtship in a way that a lot of pop culture hasn’t.
    — Allie Briggs, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Robert Saleh’s courtship with the Jets has reached the meet-the-parents stage.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The name referred to his daily gift to Dee during their courtship.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • So much about the frenzied courtship of Shohei Ohtani has been unclear.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Dec. 2017
  • McVey's parts will largely center around the courtship of Kate.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Then, there is the ham-handed courtship as clues leaked out in France and Spain all week.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • To be with you to see the courtship, the love, to be invited to your wedding as your wacky black cousin.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Males fly together in courtship flights and preen and display for the females.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
  • After a three-year courtship, they got married on a yacht in the Aegean Sea.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The couple married three years ago after a whirlwind four-month courtship.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The pair's first dates started in 2023, and the courtship is off to a strong start so far.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But who will get the best of the prickly Putin-Macron courtship remains to be seen.
    — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 5 July 2017
  • O’Neal backed off the non-binding commitment, and has had fun with his courtship since.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In the old days, bride kidnapping, often with the connivance of the bride, was the key to courtship.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • But there are moments of joy as well, like the deep look at the courtship dances of birds in New Guinea.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The courtship and nesting are a wildlife wonder, and the grebe chicks are certainly at the top of the cute chart.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2021
  • One grunt is for courtship and the other is to defend their territory.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Their courtship, when Nelson would arrive in gym attire and drive her to the hall just to watch him sweat.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018

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