How to Use intimacy in a Sentence

intimacy

noun

• The band liked the intimacy of the nightclub.
• He felt he achieved a certain intimacy with her.
• Does a fear of intimacy stop you from following up on your dates?
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• The guard takes her to dinner, then back to his home for a few scenes of quiet, understated intimacy.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
• Cohen, feet in the shallow water, lost his intimacy with failure.
  — Nicole Krauss, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The fact of the pad, the intimacy of being alone with her mother inside the bathroom, all of it had created a new distance from her father.
  — Madhuri Vijay, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
• Reviewers rave about its ability to spice things up and explore new dimensions of intimacy.
  — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
• The chapel has beautiful acoustics that provide a richness of tone, and its size — much smaller than a concert hall — adds to the intimacy of the experience.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• This vantage point replicates the intimacy conjured in Poitier’s performances.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2022
• Nate and Stacia also did some exercises to improve their physical intimacy.
  — Erik Lane, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Premodern society’s intimacy with ghosts arose from its profound familiarity with death.
  — Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
• What’s great about the bus as a space to work in is that there’s an intimacy to it.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• This feels like that kind of intimacy wrapped up in a dress.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Mar. 2023
• Be charm itself on the 19th whilst the 23rd is for greater intimacy.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
• The square is vast and grand, but still retains a folksy intimacy.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
• Jenny and Sam share all the intimacy of tired commuters on a rush-hour train.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
• Hair braiding as a sign of true intimacy among friends or lovers.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• Too many seats were still too far from the stage, precluding a sense of intimacy.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• From sleeping on a bench in the town square to exploring intimacy in the bedroom for the first time, here’s what the couples got up to this week.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• But the track’s devoid of the warmth and intimacy that makes a Christmas song truly great and classic.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2022
• Real love is that level of intimacy, and the acceptance of the messy parts.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• Make a separate living room to create a flow to your floor plan and intimacy to the rooms.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 19 June 2023
• The first film portrays the world of male stripping with a buoyant intimacy, through the lens of a dancer’s memory.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2023
• Built in ‘62 for the World’s Fair, it’s been reupholstered a couple times since but retains the intimacy of a two-car garage.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
• In fact, sometimes a moody deep tone enhances the sense of intimacy and simply makes the space cooler.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• And the intimacy within its epic stature reminds me of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
• The intimacy of the wedding may have belied the planning behind it.
  — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• There’s a sense of intimacy because Modest Mouse at one point was just three guys trying to fill space in a song.
  — Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• This approach gives a sense of intimacy to all the places Fink paints, whether mundane or sweeping.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• The use of Imax cameras also enhanced the intimacy of the story in the sense that van Hoytema shot faces very up close and personal.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024