INTERCOURSE in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for INTERCOURSE, such as:

1. Men despised the intercourse act, and yet did it.
2. She denied having had sexual intercourse with him.
3. She never had sexual intercourse before she was married.
4. Rape is committed where sexual intercourse takes place without consent.
5. In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERCOURSE
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intercourse
 n.  communication between individuals
 n.  the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  Because that passive sort of giving himself was so obviously his only real mode of intercourse.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Men despised the intercourse act, and yet did it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly restored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the old intimacy had thought ever likely to be again.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  You all give me a feeling of being able to trust and confide in you, which in common intercourse one knows nothing of.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  I dare say I was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of Mansfield.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford's name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  Their respectability was as dear to her as her own, and a daily intercourse had become precious by habit.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  It would place her in the same village with Captain Wentworth, within half a mile of him; they would have to frequent the same church, and there must be intercourse between the two families.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  How the long stage would pass; how it was to affect their manners; what was to be their sort of intercourse, she could not foresee.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  Lady Russell's composed mind and polite manners were put to some trial on this point, in her intercourse in Camden Place.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  Rape is committed where sexual intercourse takes place without consent.
2  She never had sexual intercourse before she was married.
3  She denied having had sexual intercourse with him.