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.
• 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
• By the end of their fight, the current of intimacy that ran between them for years is shut off.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2022
• 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
• Alan, on the other hand, brings us into his logic and his past enough to form an intimacy with the viewer.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Wesley said the podcast format made the most sense for the story, giving it a sense of intimacy.
  — Julia MacCary, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• Does a fear of intimacy stop you from following up on your dates?
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• One night, when Maya returns to the house covered in blood, Anna and Maya share a strange moment of intimacy.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Aug. 2022
• Some things may have changed, but the search for intimacy within spaces that are purely our own, has not.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
• Meanwhile, their task is to heighten the reader’s sense of intimacy to the most powerful person in the world.
  — Alexander Sorondo, Vox, 31 July 2024
• The intimacy, and the ability to share your deepest, darkest secrets.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
• The way Trust Exercise flips these events in the novel’s second half, casting them in an entirely different light, is an emotionally unsettling experience that opens up provocative questions about ethics, intimacy, and authorship.
  — Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025