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
• 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
• Wesley said the podcast format made the most sense for the story, giving it a sense of intimacy.
  — Julia MacCary, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• So a big part of those training sessions was about building that trust and intimacy.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• True intimacy often involves a free flow of thoughts and the ability to express needs and wants.
  — WIRED, 26 Nov. 2022
• Our lack of access to healthy intimacy leaves many of us in a scarcity model of physical love and care.
  — Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
• Bare brick walls, stone columns, and vaulted ceilings give the place a kind of antique intimacy.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
• L’alcazar in 1975, with it’s too-close-for-comfort framing of her face, does indeed capture the intimacy and joy of their era’s party scene.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
• To indicate the intimacy of her new material, the singer made her nickname the title of her new album.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024