"intimate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was an intimate, hence cruel, reminder of all that they had once meant to one another.
- He stamped on a sentimental impulse to pick up the brush and cradle this intimate reminder of Abigail in his hands; he had no time for sentiment right now.
- He grinned at Lessa in an intimate reminder of her promise.
- 'I'm hungry,' he announced, his smile making his words an intimate reminder.
- There are oddly intimate reminders of a home where little children played and adults partied hard, and where a couple once fought violently on New Year's Eve.
- For the younger woman, such a combination is merely a style, not a blanket symbol of the wrongs of patriarchy, nor an intimate reminder that her mother's life was less than it could have been.
- It might be well to write some message on the card recalling the events of the preceding evening--nothing intimate, but simply a reminder of your first meeting and a suggestion that you might possibly desire to continue the acquaintanceship.
- As I wait, my eyes come to rest on the collection of family snapshots that sits atop a nearby desk, fragments from her other life as a wife and mother; intimate reminders of another time, not that long ago, but now utterly, irretrievably gone.
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