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Example sentences for "intercourse"

Lexicographically close words:
interconnected; interconnection; interconnexion; intercontinental; intercostal; intercourses; intercross; intercrossed; intercrossing; intercurrent
  1. This somebody wrote a private letter in which he expressed "fear and regret that Mr. Motley's bearing in his social intercourse was throwing obstacles in the way of a future settlement.

  2. The eyes may not touch the external world; all may now be correct in our actions and intercourse with men.

  3. Thirty years of silence, forty days of seclusion after heaven had proclaimed Him, leisurely intercourse with Andrew and John, Peter and Nathanael, and then a brief ministry in a subject nation, and chiefly in a despised province.

  4. All the intercourse the inhabitants had, was only with the western coasts of Wales and Scotland, from whence, at least in those ages, they were not like to learn very much politeness.

  5. M'Pherson and his officers accompanied their captors to Mrs. Motte's, and partook with them of a sumptuous dinner; soothing in the sweets of social intercourse the ire which the preceding conflict had engendered.

  6. I took this as a sign of grace, and was quite favourable to the mode of intercourse thus established.

  7. No one has pleasure in holding intercourse with such a person, and he is a constant source of annoyance to those about him.

  8. Intercourse promotes all the functions of the body and mind, but rampant just and sexual abuses soon destroy the natural pleasures of intercourse, and unhappiness will be the result.

  9. In the eunuch the power of sexual intercourse is not entirely lost, but of course there is sterility, and little if any satisfaction, and the same thing may be true of the victim of self-abuse.

  10. Some writers claim that intercourse should never occur except for the purpose of childbearing but such restraint is not natural and consequently not conducive to health.

  11. The risks of disease which a married man runs in impure intercourse are far more serious, because they not only involve himself, but his wife and his children.

  12. They become devoted to business with such exclusiveness, that all social intercourse is irksome.

  13. The opening into the vagina is nearly oval, and in those who have never indulged in sexual intercourse or in handling the sexual organs is more or less closed by a membrane termed the hymen.

  14. Indeed, it may be said that in self-sacrifice in the ordinary intercourse of life, mainly consists the difference between being well and ill bred.

  15. It is no doubt difficult for some men to fully abstain from sexual intercourse and be entirely chaste in mind.

  16. After intercourse at the proper time the liability to conception is very great.

  17. Intercourse should be absolutely avoided just before or after meals, or just after mental excitement or physical exercise.

  18. There was much less intercourse with the Homestead, partly from Rachel being much engrossed with the F.

  19. Ermine had dropped all scruples about Rose's intercourse with other children, and the feeling that she might associate with them on equal terms, perhaps, was the most complete assurance of Edward's restoration.

  20. The interest of this new intercourse quite took out the sting of disappointment, when again Curatocult came back, "declined with thanks.

  21. He has found them out, wants to take violent measures, and forbids any sort of intercourse on pain of death.

  22. Now that he found perfect contentment in his domestic relations, he withdrew from his intercourse with others and devoted himself exclusively to his family and work.

  23. They contain, by way of intimation, an explanation of the distance which lies between the things of daily intercourse and the terms of science.

  24. To get things into the estate where such inference is practicable, many qualities of the water and air, cats and dogs, stones and stars, of daily intercourse with the world have been dropped or depressed.

  25. Scots should have the benefits of the Act of Navigation but no intercourse with foreign plantations, and should not buy any more foreign built ships.

  26. Have you had much intercourse with the fishermen in your district of the country?

  27. It is a fact well known to me from my intercourse with the people, I am meeting them every month, not on the island, but elsewhere.

  28. In his daily intercourse with his staff, however, in his office or in the mess-room, he showed to less advantage than in the society of strangers.

  29. The intercourse between North and South, social or commercial, was hardly more than that which exists between two foreign nations.

  30. In my personal intercourse with Jackson," writes General Imboden, "in the early part of the war, he often said that there were two things never to be lost sight of by a military commander.

  31. By the time of her marriage she was matured by much intercourse with notable people, as well as by extensive reading, and from her experience of London society and varied travel in England was well fitted to shine as the county doctor's wife.

  32. No doubt some impulse to Darwin's views in this direction would be due to his intercourse with Dr.

  33. Hence the necessity for a more intimate intercourse with the trading world, and a deeper involvement in money affairs than would have attended a more retired effort of the like kind.

  34. When Memphis was reached their friendly intercourse would come to an end.

  35. She had not seen him since she had been sent north to Philadelphia, and their intercourse had been limited to infrequent letters.

  36. By continued intercourse with these men, he greatly increased the circle of his acquaintances, and soon became a welcome guest at the residences of many of the first families of that refined and aristocratic city.

  37. The imaginative boy turns a vacant lot into an African jungle, and hunts wild beasts in constant peril of his life; the imaginative girl carries on social intercourse with her dolls as seriously as with her most intimate playmates.

  38. Yet it did, as the tripod of the white man has proved; and until the problem of aerial navigation is solved, human intercourse will move largely on paths first marked by the buffalo.

  39. When there is activity, or enlargement, or a liberalizing spirit of any kind, then there is intercourse and travel, and these require roads.

  40. The same process will be recorded later in the case of the intercourse of Crusaders and Saracens; and in the seventeenth century it is noted by La Bruyère (Caractères, ch.

  41. Hence, with every extension of every State, every advance in intercourse made in peace or through war, there would be a further comparison of credences, a further challenge to the reasoning powers of thoughtful men.

  42. I have heard of two or three such who have been rendered so by long and intimate intercourse with Europeans; and have met with one materialist, who has often had long discussions with me.

  43. Thereafter he visited Lyons and Geneva, and had some intercourse with Oecolampadius at Basel, where he put in the hands of a bookseller the signed manuscript of his first book, De Trinitatis erroribus libri septem.

  44. Yet he was disposed to put to death those who claimed mystic intercourse with Deity.

  45. If driven by stress of weather to seek a harbor, and she has no intercourse with the shore, then, and in that case, no second fee shall be paid by said vessel.

  46. He was strengthened in his course by a warm friendship and frequent intercourse with the late Abraham L.

  47. In that hour or two of intercourse with Peter's family, my heart warmed with love to them.

  48. If such vessel be driven back by stress of weather to seek a harbor, she shall be exempt from payment of a second fee, unless she holds intercourse with the shore.

  49. Pete desired no friendly intercourse with him whatever; but he perceived that his old master recognized him and was bent upon stopping him.

  50. The writer of this first became acquainted with her in 1836, and, at various times since then, has met her at Anti-slavery meetings, or in familiar intercourse at her own house.

  51. In all his intercourse with the prisoners and their friends, he plainly showed that all his sympathies were on the side of Freedom, and not with the popular pro-slavery sentiment which clamored so loudly against traitors and abolitionists.


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