How to Use foreplay in a Sentence

foreplay

noun

• In this case, the foreplay is the part to be worried about.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 16 Mar. 2020
• Done right, foreplay can be just as good as the main event.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2019
• Think of these clips as foreplay for the Feb. 9 release of Fifty Shades Freed.
  — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• And, as always, foreplay is important to get you in the mood.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 29 June 2017
• Dedicate more time to the warm up before the main event, and if foreplay isn't the issue, use lube.
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• So that got me to thinking about all the things lots of men don’t know, but could probably stand to learn, about foreplay.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 12 Dec. 2017
• Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, Gerald's Game tells the story of a weekend trip, and some foreplay, gone very, very wrong.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• Again, start by thinking of sexting as a bit of virtual foreplay to the in-person fun.
  — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2018
• In all of the studies, duration was considered to start with foreplay and end with the male orgasm.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Where’s the line between wrestling your boss over a keychain and actual foreplay?
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• Trust us, these Valentine's Day lingerie looks are too good to only wear during foreplay.
  — Talia Abbas, SELF, 6 Feb. 2019
• But even with foreplay, some women need a little extra help (and that's totally OK).
  — Elyssa Goodman, Glamour, 21 Mar. 2019
• Aries are always up for a challenge, and although foreplay is not their strong suit, they get riled up by the opportunity to take charge and get down.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
• One species in particular is known for its less than happy foreplay.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• One thing that helps is engaging in enough foreplay to get adequately warmed up.
  — Isadora Baum, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
• To be clear, nothing in this movie makes any kind of emotional sense; there is zero narrative foreplay.
  — Laura Bennett, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
• Scaring good Christian black folk by burning crosses on their front lawns was merely foreplay to the climax that was murder.
  — Matthew Allen, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
• Even Stephen’s meanest barbs at his ex, Diana (Alicia Crowder), can be and often are twisted into a spiky form of foreplay.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• After all that foreplay, Samsung finally announced the main Galaxy Unpacked event of the second half of 2021.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 July 2021
• Who but men could have scripted such a response, which seems intended to please a harasser who sees aggression as foreplay?
  — Noam Cohen, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• And most pressing: Seriously, what kind of person uses Shark Week for foreplay?
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Seduction can begin weeks before over text, and lead right up to a teasing moment of foreplay, stating your designs on your partner’s body.
  — Tina Horn, Allure, 23 Aug. 2017
• Honestly, this awkward chat can wind up being foreplay.
  — Gigi Engle, SELF, 28 Sep. 2018
• An actual tryst requires people to be physically present in the same place, but foreplay can happen anytime, anywhere – and the faithful may have no idea.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
• That’s until he gets tossed into a preposterous climax that seems to have lost some key foundational foreplay in the edit.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
• Jaime didn’t knight Brienne because of a crush, and anyone seeing that interaction as foreplay is completely missing the point.
  — Courtney Shea, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2019
• Finding ways to encourage arousal or stimulate foreplay doesn’t always go to plan, either.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• As a result, Johnson spent a ton of time navigating her way through some of the series' most intensely intimate moments (three words: ice cream foreplay).
  — Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 12 Feb. 2018
• Experts believe that males and females rubbed their sensitive faces together in a prehistoric form of foreplay.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 Mar. 2017
• This foreplay is done out of sheer necessity—females are generally bigger and more aggressive than the males.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024