osculated

past tense of osculate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for osculated
Verb
  • Mesa smacked his first career MLB home run — a three-run blast 394 feet to right field — to provide the highlight of the night for the Marlins, who watched the Nationals circle the bases for most of the game.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … CROSSING THE LINE – Ravens' Lamar Jackson retaliates against fan after being smacked in helmet.
    , FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Hollywood Reporter published their accounts, which included one woman’s claim that the actor waited for her outside of a restroom and forcefully pushed her against a wall and kissed her.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The afternoons of those years wore gold like jewelry, and the sun kissed our skin as dust rose behind us in small clouds that the wind.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Checks drawn from an IRA account and made out to the charity, either by the account holder or the IRA custodian, are considered qualified charitable distributions as long as other rules are met.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • From Hawaiian to Californian wood The brothers had grown up riding the waves atop giant surfboards made out of native Hawaiian woods such as ulu and koa.
    Chloe Veltman, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Osculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/osculated. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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