intercourse

These two were having intercourse, in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

From dawn to dusk, observant Muslims the world over will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

As he warned, the “logical consequences of … a decision which elevates commercial intercourse … to the same plane as has been previously reserved for the free marketplace of ideas, are far reaching indeed.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023

Emergency contraception - including emergency contraceptive pills and copper-bearing intrauterine devices - can prevent about 95% of pregnancies when taken within five days of intercourse, the WHO says.

From BBC ● May 31, 2023

She still rang the house telephone to the morning-room every day and submitted the menu to me as a matter of form, but that was the limit of our intercourse.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony

The imagination, however, of the reader pictures to itself a man who could hardly have been a Consul at any time—one silent, lonely, uncouth, and altogether separate from the pleasant intercourses of life.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

An observer who can also speculate,—one who looks before and after,—will conclude that, amidst some evil, the change is advantageous; and that good must, on the whole, arise from enlarged intercourses between men and societies.

From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Martineau, Harriet

As she frankly admitted, she had rather fallen back on Edith, finding her, after many experiments, the most agreeable of friends, chiefly because in their intercourses everything was always taken for granted.

From Love's Shadow by Leverson, Ada

But it was in the intercourses of social life that the superiority of Opposition was most incontestable.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various