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Example sentences for: intimates

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That was our way of showing, to ourselves especially, that we were intimates of those eminent locations.
Just to free associate, Prudie, herself, loves jewelry and is known to intimates as Sparkle Plenty.
But as someone who read a vast amount of what had been written about Diana, conducted 150 interviews (many with her intimates), and included 60 pages of detailed footnotes, I find it dismaying that Slate would run such a disingenuous review.
The story quotes intimates as saying that as late as senior year at Princeton, Bradley was considering becoming a minister.
But there's no evidence that, as the shadow page intimates, EarthLink is an arm of the church.