How to Use intimate with in a Sentence

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  • Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2022
  • And now, the week’s best new music to get intimate with your earholes.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • To be intimate with someone is, in this sense, a genuine interest in the other person and to be moved by them.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This time, Kendall kept things a little more intimate with a cozy photoshoot on what appeared to be her couch.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 10 Jan. 2023
  • If your wife doesn’t feel the pressure to have intercourse, being intimate with you should help to draw you two closer.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • Couples can make their way to the slopes, or keep things intimate with the resort’s yurt experiences.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Having the foot being intimate with the trail surfaces is paramount.
    — Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But most women aren’t intimate with their husbands on TV.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • There are benefits for the fans who attend games: parking is easier and the feel is more intimate with so few people in the seats.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This is the second time Alex has been intimate with someone publicly thought of as dangerous — first Mitch, now Paul.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Married at First Sight's Clare is seeking advice on how to get more intimate with her husband Cameron.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Frankie met and became intimate with the couple during a trip to Mexico.
    — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022
  • Other scenes in the trailer show Styles screaming in a car, and later getting intimate with Pugh on a dining room table.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • He is arrested by a religious sect for the crime of being gay and having been intimate with other men.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • At one point, Cyrus is seen getting intimate with her love interest but his face is too blurry to make out, mirroring the point of view in her writing.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2022
  • Belle de Jour, a film about a French woman who, unable to be intimate with her husband, decides to become a high class prostitute.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The trauma of the past 15 months or so will mean that many of us will have to be socialized into unmasking and being intimate with one another again.
    — Steven W. Thrasher, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • Annie Lane offers advice to a husband who still loves his wife but doesn’t want to be physically intimate with her.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
  • After meeting the bisexual couple in Mexico and getting intimate with them, Frankie kept in touch with Abby over a video call, and the two fell in love.
    — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 4 May 2022
  • An Aries full moon on October 9 draws you into your local space even more, inviting you to get more intimate with your surroundings through your body.
    — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Cat Carmichael is the owner of a thriving naughty bakeshop — who hasn't been intimate with her boyfriend in almost two years thanks to a muscular condition called vaginismus.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 9 May 2022
  • Sunday night’s episode showed the couple speak about their first night getting physically intimate with each — but their stories didn’t line up.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Hugh Jackman once found himself on a Broadway stage getting intimate with Matt Damon.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The clip posted on YouTube also features several scenes where the couple was seen getting intimate with each other.
    — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2022
  • This nightly routine led Priscilla to blow up at her then fiancé, begging him to spend more time being intimate with her than reading his boring books.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Although the house architecturally is simple, Angela made open spaces seem more intimate with gestures like the arched entry to the den.
    — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Tyla sensually dances through the rain and gets intimate with La Flame while they’re separated by a glass window.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In a violent culture afraid of mortality, the willingness to be intimate with death can be a form of vigilance.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • And that means that Americans will soon become intimate with the vagaries of lithium-ion battery maintenance.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
  • May 2017: In a paparazzi photo, Scott was seen getting intimate with Kylie, embracing her while grabbing her backside.
    — Janae McKenzie, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2022

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