Examples of courtship in a Sentence
They had a two-year courtship before marrying.
The male of the species often displays aggression during courtship.
the President's courtship of middle-class voters
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Her 2020 novel Hamnet, which focuses on William Shakespeare's courtship with wife Anne Hathaway and the death of their son, was adapted into a 2025 movie of the same name starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
After a strange courtship ritual—in which, as a favor to Liveright, Cerf accompanied the writer Theodore Dreiser to an afternoon baseball game that the latter man, bored, sulky, whisked them from around the sixth inning—Cerf took the job.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
Gen Z doesn’t necessarily crave a return to rigid gender scripts or traditional courtship rituals.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
Executives will hope that their courtship with Sky can turn into an enduring union, even if the takeover bid has left some perplexed.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
After a strange courtship ritual—in which, as a favor to Liveright, Cerf accompanied the writer Theodore Dreiser to an afternoon baseball game that the latter man, bored, sulky, whisked them from around the sixth inning—Cerf took the job.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
Gen Z doesn’t necessarily crave a return to rigid gender scripts or traditional courtship rituals.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
Executives will hope that their courtship with Sky can turn into an enduring union, even if the takeover bid has left some perplexed.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for courtship
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“Courtship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courtship. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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courtship
noun
court·ship
-ˌship 
: the act or process of courting
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