How to Use intercourse in a Sentence

intercourse

noun
  • That night, in the midst of intercourse, my wife reached down and felt a lump in my groin.
    Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2017
  • And the more someone engages in intercourse, the more the risks drop.
    Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Then there’s the question of when the body is once again ready for the rigors of intercourse.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • At a four- or six-week checkup, you may be cleared to have intercourse again.
    Kavin Senapathy, SELF, 17 Aug. 2018
  • God told Onan to have intercourse with his dead brother’s wife.
    Ryan D'agostino, Men's Health, 8 June 2022
  • Oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse can all transmit the virus.
    Tara Smith, SELF, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Their intercourse is shot from eight angles, with rapid cuts.
    Eve Gerber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In war all means are good, and the best ones are precisely the things most condemned in normal human intercourse.
    Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • After their two-to-four-week jaunt, the adult cicadas die following the intercourse.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Officers reviewed footage of Transit Bus #3372 and saw Patillo take the victim to the back of the bus and appear to have intercourse with her.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Patillo then forced the victim to perform oral intercourse on him.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The men argued that the young woman had consented to intercourse.
    Time, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Women, who, should intercourse go awry, had failed in their duties.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, the study found that only half of the cheaters reported having vaginal intercourse.
    Gary W. Lewandowski, Scientific American, 4 May 2021
  • But in cases of vaginal intercourse, it is left up to a judge’s discretion.
    Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Fondling and intercourse are among the accusations lodged at Melton.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Lube is also a great way to make intercourse feel more pleasurable.
    Vanessa Marin, Allure, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Only 18.4% of the women surveyed said intercourse alone was enough to orgasm, according to the study.
    Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2017
  • In this case, the function that's not being achieved is actual intercourse.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2011
  • Rates of HIV are around 18 times higher in anal rather than vaginal intercourse, so anal creampies are much riskier.
    Rose Surnow, Cosmopolitan, 18 Nov. 2016
  • In fact, according to the Post, both Brando and Schneider have said the film’s scenes of intercourse were simulated.
    Anna North, Vox, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Pugh stops during intercourse and picks up a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism’s holiest scriptures, and asks Murphy to read from it.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • In court papers, detectives alleged that one woman went to Black’s Rockville apartment March 24 and that the two had intercourse.
    Dan Morse, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • These women simply do not want to live the rest of their lives suffering from itching, burning, and painful intercourse.
    Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 22 May 2017
  • To get these statistics, the NCHS surveyed 3,700 unmarried men who'd had intercourse in the prior three months.
    Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Morris said in the statement to church leaders that the abuse including kissing and touching but not intercourse.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2024
  • The second man was 32-years-old and had had unprotected intercourse with another man during the first half of May.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • This can lead to a host of issues such as urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and pain during intercourse.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Their intercourse isn’t soft-core like Bound but features Marian’s shy, sly, self-consciousness.
    Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024

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