How to Use intercourse in a Sentence

intercourse

noun
  • Painful intercourse is not a thing in your world.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Their intercourse is shot from eight angles, with rapid cuts.
    Eve Gerber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Women, who, should intercourse go awry, had failed in their duties.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse can all transmit the virus.
    Tara Smith, SELF, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Lube is also a great way to make intercourse feel more pleasurable.
    Vanessa Marin, Allure, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Patillo then forced the victim to perform oral intercourse on him.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But in cases of vaginal intercourse, it is left up to a judge’s discretion.
    Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • After their two-to-four-week jaunt, the adult cicadas die following the intercourse.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Using a condom that is too big could allow some semen to leak out during intercourse.
    Peter Weiss, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The virus can also spread during close skin-to-skin contact during intercourse.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The men argued that the young woman had consented to intercourse.
    Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In this case, the function that's not being achieved is actual intercourse.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2011
  • 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
  • Instead, it could be taken as often as a person wanted to have intercourse.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Fondling and intercourse are among the accusations lodged at Melton.
    Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • In fact, the study found that only half of the cheaters reported having vaginal intercourse.
    Gary W. Lewandowski, Scientific American, 4 May 2021
  • The two counts of rape Høiby was convicted of did not involve intercourse.
    Gwladys Fouche, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • With Tim, Martha hadn’t often come during intercourse.
    Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • After intercourse, the teenager had snapped photos of her naked body on a futon as evidence.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
  • These women simply do not want to live the rest of their lives suffering from itching, burning, and painful intercourse.
    Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 22 May 2017
  • Watching each other can be wildly erotic and can speed up your arousal without the pressure of rushing to intercourse.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 May 2025
  • Dubé is worried most of all about the psychological effects of intercourse (or a lack thereof) in space.
    Kim Tingley, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Morris said in the statement to church leaders that the abuse including kissing and touching but not intercourse.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2024
  • There is also no risk of the IUD being pushed out or dislodged during intercourse.
    Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2024

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