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
  • This is true to the moment onscreen: The intercourse itself lasts about 10 seconds.
    — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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.
    — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • But in cases of vaginal intercourse, it is left up to a judge’s discretion.
    — Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 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, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2022
  • If your wife doesn’t feel the pressure to have intercourse, being intimate with you should help to draw you two closer.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 16 May 2022
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2021
  • There is also no risk of the IUD being pushed out or dislodged during intercourse.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This can create pelvic floor tension, hip pain, lower back issues, pain with intercourse, as well as urinary and bowel concerns.
    — Dana Solomon, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2025
  • With hysterical plotlines involving things like intercourse with baked goods or hair gels made from bodily fluids?
    — Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025

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