How to Use erotic in a Sentence

erotic

adjective
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  • Rooting for her to get laid is one of the erotic peaks of the movie.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The erotic parts of the diary could be self-mocking, too.
    — Daniel Lewis, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Richard Gere once again cannot get a break in an erotic thriller.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The fact that the lovers conform to a type, in their sighing and gasping, seems to buoy up, not to pop, the erotic mood.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The rose was the flower of Eros, the Greco-Roman god of passion and erotic love.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • If the erotic thrillers of the past explored the dangers of lust, Park Chan-wook explores the risks of longing.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Still, viewers were quick to read the tangles of rosy limbs as erotic.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • The erotic tension in the Jackass movies is more daring.
    — Armond White, National Review, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The film takes place between the family’s home and the erotic theater.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In the movies, even casual erotic hookups tend to be viewed through a sheen of stardom.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Rubbed her shoulders and kissed her and engaged in all of the many things that are part of the erotic life of many loving couples?
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The Enchanters continues along the same lines and throws some erotic fan fiction into the mix.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • There's just one shot of all of us, oiled up, shirtless, doing the most erotic dances on the tarmac before even going to the beach.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • Bonny and Read’s scenes on the show include some over-the-top erotic stabbings and poisonings.
    — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years, erotic dancers have slowly earned more rights.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • In any case, the erotic comedy set in 1970s Los Angeles is packed with decor inspo from the era.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The scene in which the erotic disaster unfolds forms a sort of diptych with the deflowering scene in Lessons.
    — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, Gandy had a plan for Alfaro — to use him in his erotic-massage business.
    — Abigail Pesta, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Kelly Rowland is showing fans a new side with her very first erotic thriller!
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Not merely erotic, such deep joy feels like skipping rope.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Mar. 2023
  • On a stroll through the park, Sally tells Harry about a recurring erotic dream in which a faceless man rips off her clothes.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The show makes many other nods to the movie, from Alex and Dan’s erotic elevator encounter to Alex pouring acid on his car.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • From the ether came a voice with an erotic tale replete with moaning and exhortations.
    — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • The bans’ most obvious targets were erotic images and texts.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Gina Gershon is warm for Jennifer Tilly’s form and vice versa in the Wachowskis’ erotic 1996 thriller.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • This is what gave the dark, erotic wildness of his surrealist years such power.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The scenes are funny, tasteful and a little corny, but maybe the erotic fantasies of 14-year-old gay boys are inherently corny?
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • Lusty, assertive Mars is also in Leo until July 20, raising the erotic stakes to a scorching-hot high.
    — ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • Noé is known as a provocateur, and seems to be more successful across the board in the kind of erotic/raunchy/button-pushing stories that Levinson wants to make.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
  • The show for me is all about removing this repressed sensual and erotic energy that has been in place for so long.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024

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