How To Use Courtship In A Sentence

Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian.
This may be due to the cheetah's prolonged courtship behavior, which requires extensive territory.
The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
Highly romantic courtships don't guarantee living happily ever after, but they are associated with a longer road to divorce.
A more light-minded woman than Anna Reynolds might have swooned at the romance of this troubled courtship.

Formation of pair bonds begins in October with courtship displays continuing until mating takes place, usually in March.
These results indicate that male fruit flies adaptively refine their courtship behavior with experience.
Nuptial gifts provided by males during courtship or mating can influence female mating preference.
She had begun to realize, to get a hint of what was going on, that perhaps she was witnessing an obverse courtship. DANSVILLE
Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject. Homosexuality and Biology
Gift-giving in courtship traditionally was handled discreetly, with men offering women small gifts on special occasions.
In this species, male courtship drumming has been shown to be an honest indicator of heritable viability.
Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
All deer are polygamous, with males competing for females, but the manner in which each species approaches courtship has much to do with the nature of its environment.
Adult fru mutant males were tested for a variety of courtship and noncourtship behaviors.
Susana Baca (Grammy 2003) "The marinera is a dance of pair of extraordinary beauty, that represents a universal subject: the courtship of love. WN.com - Articles related to Gay travel to Lima, Peru: Easier than ever with LAN Airlines new service from SFO
Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block. Archive 2009-04-01
To those, who are fond of relations of love and courtship, of the hopes and fears of the tender passion, of warm declarations, agitated hesitations, and timid acceptations, the volumes before us will afford a treat; for this regular routine of interesting detail, occurs about eight times, we believe, in the four thin duodecimos in question.
The male has an amusing courtship display. Times, Sunday Times
After a quick courtship they married.
Bronzed Cowbirds perform spectacular three-part courtship displays incorporating both of their major categories of song.
For the pretest and the copying experiment, we recorded the same four males again, but this time as single males that showed courtship displays to a female in an extra tank underneath.
The resulting interviews document the women's experiences of wartime deprivation, courtship and marriage, immigration, and adaptation to American life.
It won't last long, this curious quadrille of quasi-courtship.
The male performs spectacular courtship displays and two eggs are laid around mid-May, four days apart.
There is room also for consideration of the implications of the arguably more opportunistic courtships of the poor revealed by the evidence of illegitimacy cases.
Headgesture : 13456 On some occasions, this act shows self - satisfaction, one's flirtation or courtship.
And they were performing a courtship dance. Times, Sunday Times
In the praying mantids, the insect group most notorious for sexual cannibalism, males have been suggested to reduce the females' aggression by courtship displays and ‘cautious behavior’.
Late winter is the time for the annual courtship display of the American woodcock, a.k.a. timberdoodle. Undefined
Courtship is somewhat vocal with a lot of displaying by the male.
Courtship and mating takes place from late winter to spring.
A short and intense courtship followed. Times, Sunday Times
It is both a needed reminder and a adept demonstration that watching courtship treated as a noble game is still quite rewarding even in times where romance is traded for expediency.
Although young people may initiate courtship, marriage is often arranged by the family, with older siblings or extended family members suggesting possible mates.
And her experience of younger men was that this was a normal part of the courtship ritual. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, females that attempted to avoid courtship (as predicted under the hypothesis of sexual conflict) might be able to do so by selecting sites with fewer pheromonal cues from males.
There was no adult male in sight, because the female assumes all the duties of nesting; the male's reproductive role begins with courtship and ends with mating.
Nonetheless, the underlying brain network that produced the male courtship behaviour was in place. Times, Sunday Times
This is the objective of courtship.
Patching together diverse pieces of information, some traits of traditions of courtship and marriage in rural areas can be sketched.
Their relationship began 18 months after Myfanwy died, with a low-key old-fashioned courtship; he sent flowers, there were candlelit dinners.
The true stakes of courtship put young men making offers of marriage at the mercy of the women they wooed.
Sir, Some cultures do not have a courtship period before marriage. Times, Sunday Times
The cloacal and genial glands were chosen because they release pheromones used in mate attraction or courtship.
In fact, he actually preferred to come here when he needed inspiration for his poetry or to work out the kinks in the courtships he was helping along.
After a year-long courtship, a diamond and sapphire ring from India sealed the deal.
In all species of Laupala, the male song structure is simple, consisting of a rhythmic train of pulses produced during courtship by stridulation of the forewings.
What the swallow sees makes it scream and dive: soft insects, in delicate courtship, fanning transparent wings over thin feelers and long legs.
For example, one among the things which distinguishes contemporary Western society from, say, Indian society is the markedly different set of practices followed in courtship and marriage.
With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds.
I knew it would be an elaborate fantasy, a courtship, a serenade.
Male courtship displays and bright coloration are usually assumed to provide information to females about some aspect of the male's value as a mate.
This is probably your last chance at courtship. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Our long courtship had been conducted mostly by letter.
Courtship behavior in Photinus fireflies provides a unique opportunity to explore the interaction between female preference, male courtship signals and nuptial gifts.
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
The example she gives is the bluegill sunfish of North America, where a dominant male will recruit a smaller, feminine male - so-called because he sports female colors - in what looks like a homosexual courtship.
It is both a needed reminder and a adept demonstration that watching courtship treated as a noble game is still quite rewarding even in times where romance is traded for expediency.
Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship June 20th, 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in 2007, almost finished him off, as his hesitant courtship of a fellow Hogwarts student (the demure Cho Chang) proceeded simultaneously with the onslaughts of a rampant snakelike essence from within his own brain. Sex and the Single Wizard
Perhaps it was getting warm inside, or perhaps lovers sought the darkness, there to perform the rituals of courtship. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay. Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
As some of us slept, others watched the courtship of a pair of paradise flycatchers and a pair of crested buntings.
The pair began a long courtship which survived extended periods apart. The Sun
Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.
A lifelong struggle against homosexuality (which I had associated with my overintensity and its accompanying anxiety) came to some kind of turning of the ways in the courtship phase of this relationship. A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story
All being well, after the curious courtship, the greyhens will start laying their eggs from the middle of next month.
Males of over half of the species of manakins produce startling sounds with their wings during courtship displays.
For the mass of the population it did imply a departure from established patterns of marriage and courtship.
I know it is an ‘old-fashioned’ concept these days, but long courtships gave both parties the time to really assess the other.
In the 1980s, some primatologists noticed that monkeys and apes - unlike other mammals - sometimes deceived members of their own species, in order to trick them out of food or sneak off for some furtive courtships.
Male golden-collared manakins clear leaf litter from the ground to form courts, which they then use as arenas for intense courtship displays.
By May and June, courtship rituals are at their peak, with three to five offspring born five weeks later.
With no elaborate courtship ritual, males in a frenzied pursuit of sexual congress often blunder into and puncture the bodies of other males, occasionally inflicting fatal wounds.
Only an initiated man is ready to withstand the dangers of courtship and marriage.
Their elaborate dance of courtship, which cannot call itself by that name, is the film's central motif.
After a short courtship, she accepted his marriage proposal.
Abler students would do well to supplement Post's book with Bell's ‘Elizabethan Women and Poetry of Courtship’.
Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block. Jack Tweed to Remarry
Mrs. Bell comments that the term vicissitudes does not occur in the text (and, I daresay, courtship and marriage do not occur as chapter headings, either). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
For example, several species of birds such as bowerbirds, widowbirds, cock-of-the-rocks, birds of paradise, peacock-pheasants, and manakins build or clear courts used as arenas during elaborate courtship displays to females.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Kahlil Gibran
Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes.
In courtship, the male attracts the female with an aerial display.
This is probably your last chance at courtship. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The Thick Lipped Gourami is a bubble nest builder and displays an interesting behaviour pattern during courtship and breeding.
During courtship, the female often takes the lead, staking her breeding territory and fighting with other females over potential mates.
Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.
During his courtship display, the male puffs up his body and fans his tail.
Why should women have been so eager to prevent their courtships from becoming common knowledge while men adopted the opposite attitude?
Their courtship is buried, but evidence of Martha and Barend's marriage is clear: 13 children, 12 guided to adulthood. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
And they were performing a courtship dance. Times, Sunday Times
His courtship of antique cameras also had lucky breaks like chancing upon photographers closing shop, selling him their equipment at bargain prices and friends and acquaintances also passing him on old cameras.
During courtship, the male displays for the female by scraping a nest and bowing next to the female while flashing the white on his tail.
The male performs a magnificent courtship display.
Because of the war they were obliged to conduct their courtship by post.
Last week's news of the royal engagement made me think a lot about relationships, especially ones with a long courtship. Times, Sunday Times
Courtship is a bowknot that matrimony pulls into a hard knot. More Toasts
After a three-weekend courtship, Pamela accepted Randolph's proposal of marriage.
Fournier has identified a total of 15 types of consumer/brand relationships, from marriages of convenience and casual friends to courtships, flings and secret affairs.
The Zulu, on the other hand, have their own traditional courtship practices which deviate somewhat from the patriarchal standard typical of most tribal societies.
Several species of birds such as cock-of-the-rocks and birds of paradise clear courts used as arenas during elaborate courtship displays to females.
Seven ruff, without as yet their elaborate courtship adornments, fed at the northern tip of a tyke.
In courtship, as in the world of advertising, there is a discrepancy of interests between the buyer and the seller.
Popular and familiar love songs underscore every bumbling error or ill-conceived machination of the lovers' various courtships.
During courtship, males sing to defend their territories and attract mates.
Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated bowers (which are not nests, but courtship arenas) and females prefer builders of higher quality bowers as mates.
In the wild, said Arnold, budgerigars perform courtship displays in the early morning, when sunlight contains the highest proportion of UV light - the time when their feathers would glow the most brightly.
They hope to make their extraordinary acts of romantic courtship a moment indelibly imprinted on the minds of their lovers.
Milou and Squawk, two young males, are also beginning to exhibit courtship behavior, hanging out with each other, billing and bowing.
With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world.
After a short courtship, she accepted his marriage proposal.
And they were performing a courtship dance. Times, Sunday Times
Diane and Derek had a whirlwind courtship of two years and the question of the day was, where exactly did the happy couple meet?
It was a courtship dance, involving a combination of hops and steps.
Rob Schneider, whose Saturday Night Live heyday seems a pitifully distant memory right about now, stars as the title schlub, a fussy nerd who somehow landed a gorgeous Mexican-American bride the innocuous Claudia Bassols after a six-week courtship. Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More
Studies by a scientist at the University of Maryland show that male bowerbirds modify their courtship rituals based on the females' body language.
The acting in Candida is realistic and accurately captures the trials and tribulations of courtship.
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
Very nearly the first hundred pages are devoted to her parentage, schooling, courtship and marriage.
Despite the fact that it deals with an earlier period of verse, the book locates both male and female-authored lyric poetry as merely one half of the dialogue of early modern courtship.
If so, we will have to make up new courtship rituals. Times, Sunday Times
Courtship involves aerial displays in some species; in many others it may only involve ritualized feeding in which the male brings food to the female.
They sometimes unwisely expose themselves to the dangers of long courtships, waiting, for example, to complete graduate school.
Bluebottle may possibly symbolize Lord and Lady Holland; and Miss Lilac is, certainly, Miss Milbanke, the "Annabella" of Byron's courtship, not the "moral Clytemnestra" of his marriage and separation. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
In some species, males have courtship displays which may involve feather fluffing, holding the wings out, shaking them, and raising the tail feathers.
Courtship is somewhat vocal with a lot of displaying by the male.
But this explanation overlooks the important fact that many young women preferred to conceal their courtships as much as possible.
Their courtship was an infinitely sensitive piece of choreography, conducted by the delicate touch of 16 translucent legs and four palps (the short feelers at the front of the head), as well as vibrations transmitted through a tracery of silk. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Romantic rhetoric helped conceal the impact of eighteenth-century courtships on economic and community status; thus were love and power intimately intertwined.
Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
It juggles the joyous thrills of matchmaking and courtship with the dark alleys of pain and grief.
When a courtship story goes sour or when it dies, a resource is lost.
This ballet is a tale of romance, courtship, and adulterous encounters amidst the glitz and glamour of the belle époque. The Merry Widow at PNB
In courtship, as in the world of advertising, there is a discrepancy of interests between the buyer and the seller.
I conceive of it as an exhalation which is given off during courtship and gradually saturates whatever is in contact with the motionless body of the female. Social Life in the Insect World
Courtship includes ledge displays with the male and female bowing to each other.
And they were performing a courtship dance. Times, Sunday Times
And I believe in short engagements and short courtships because I just got married in the summer to a wonderful man.
Satin bowerbird courtship involves behavioral displays by males, which may be both beneficial and costly for females, and may favor female signaling.
And so they actively encouraged their sexual appetites, seeking out the "hunks," in order to keep themselves in the game of what once, long ago, was called courtship and has now degenerated into the alienating culture of "hooking up. The biggest stumbling blocks
Male courtship displays and bright coloration are usually assumed to provide information to females about some aspect of the male's value as a mate.
During the courtship, which can last up to several hours, the male vibrates and crosses in front of the female, while the female is preparing for spawning by digging the redd.
A number of mutants showing abnormalities in courtship behavior have been identified, many of which show reduced levels of courtship behavior.
Triggered by dusk's fading daylight, male fireflies lift off into the air and begin their courtship.
Male courtship display includes extending the dorsal fin, pursuing, and eventually biting the female.
To successfully mate, the male skink must corkscrew his body around the female and align their genitals. If the alignment is off, so is the courtship.
The cameras were triggered automatically by any movement in the vicinity of the bower, where all courtship and mating take place.
They may be loath to accept a partner and some female insects are decorated with sharp spikes to discourage courtship.
Much of the backstory about the Sarah-Shiloh courtship comes from a novella Jodi Compton Answers Questions About Her First Book, The 37th Hour
There is, finally, a particular resonance about that unclassifiable species of Wodehouse heroine who wears a monocle and sees courtship primarily as a series of knightly tests to be accomplished by her betrothed.
They have a very simple courtship display. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone had jitters, because their courtship was such a whirlwind. The Sun
Mr. Tempest, unimpressed by the hyphened St. Clair, was unwilling to allow the courtship to proceed. The Simpkins Plot
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Kahlil Gibran
Most species perform prelaying courtship feeding, which conflicts with mate guarding, and copulate frequently.
Among her other eyespot studies, snipping 20 feather tips out of males' trains ruined courtship success.
And so the fraternal allegory is ‘forgotten’ through a segue to heterosexual courtship and marriage.
He had imagined when he came to London that he would be able to look about him at his leisure for several weeks before beginning a serious courtship of any lady in particular, almost as if he had thought he would be invisible and his intentions undiscernible. A Christmas Bride
The women who read the celebrity rags fantasize about fabulous courtships, fairy tale weddings, romantic honeymoons, and the everlasting bonding of parenting.
Courtship ceremonies are delightful: the cock slowly circles the hen with puffed-out breast feather, depressed wings and fanned tail.
From gentle persuasion to threats and abuse, coercion was apart of the courtship process.
As some of us slept, others watched the courtship of a pair of paradise flycatchers and a pair of crested buntings.
Both the numbers of flight maneuvers and courtship displays of males increase with the number of females in a harem.
But he nearly screamed when she succumbed to that caress so at the very first of the courtship and mowed and gibbered and squealed little, queer, pig-like gurgly noises of delight. THE RED ONE
Long courtship is a price paid for increasing the chance that mating, if it occurs, will be a harmonious match which benefits both sexes. My review of the True Jive Pluckers...
Males often have elaborate courtship behaviors that include strutting, fluffing of tail or head feathers, and vocal sounds.
After a short courtship, she accepted his marriage proposal.
The Thick Lipped Gourami is a bubble nest builder and displays an interesting behaviour pattern during courtship and breeding.
But the main reason why this movie is getting a recommendation, not a flat out rejection, is because this commentator can see a little of his own courtship in this cornball tale of overcoming universal odds for love.
A swift wartime courtship, a deep passionate love of a few weeks, then marriage, separation and death.
He puffed up his chest like an exotic bird engaged in a courtship dance.
Scientists think the courtship behavior is designed to synchronize the movements of the two animals so that the male can receive the eggs when the female is ready to deposit them.
A three-year courtship enabled them to paint realistic portraits of one another, lessening the chances of a rude awakening after marriage.
The Thick Lipped Gourami is a bubble nest builder and displays an interesting behaviour pattern during courtship and breeding.
From the first days of their courtship, his wife had been a woman vitally erotic, playfully taunting.
War interrupted their courtship, but regular letters from Joyce kept their friendship alive and when George returned this blossomed into love and they married
The extent to which he did so turned out to be almost as unparalleled as was the length of his courtship. Truman
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is a brilliantly colored, pigeon-size bird known for its elaborate courtship displays.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Kahlil Gibran
Much Ado About Nothing portrays the return from war of Don Pedro and his men and the subsequent courtships, flirtations, practical joking and witty conversations.
During the breeding season, groups of males do their courtship display together, puffing out air sacs in their chest and spreading their tails.
Then, he commenced to begin propositioning a whore in a profane courtship that last an hour or so until Rupert dragged him out.
For males, we noted all territorial and courtship behavior during censuses and used this information to determine the social status of a male.
If they pair up, they will perform stunning acrobatics in the sky together as part of their courtship, just as the established pairs do. Times, Sunday Times
The film documents the clumsy and difficult courtship.
I believe that the biblical design would be friendship, courtship and then marriage.
Bicolor fish tended to herd or nudge dark phase fish during courtship, and appeared to chase dark phase fish during spawning rushes towards the surface.
The answer, he says, seems to be that longer courtship is a way for the female to acquire information about the male: the new mathematical model shows that an extended courtship enables females to screen out males who are unsuitable to mate with -- and give males an opportunity to signal that, no, in fact they are very suitable. My review of the True Jive Pluckers...
I feel that my skin bristles ........ and I can not control it "Susana Baca (Grammy 2003)" The marinera is a dance of pair of extraordinary beauty, that represents a universal subject: the courtship of love. WN.com - Articles related to Gay travel to Lima, Peru: Easier than ever with LAN Airlines new service from SFO
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
It was a long courtship. Times, Sunday Times
I recorded songs from spontaneously singing males while collecting ethological data on courtship and territorial behavior.
Only among breeders of domestic poultry and female Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) does there seem to be a preference for big-breasted birds; in the case of sage-grouse, the males have developed an elaborate courtship display that exaggerates the size of the breast by expansion of large esophageal pouches and partial extension of cervical apteria (i.e., unfeathered areas between feather tracts), with larger-breasted males attracting and mating with more females. Breasted Birds
The male performs a magnificent courtship display.
Soon they would be on to their breeding lands and would dance in courtship and triumph. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks to the app, ancient family trees can now play a direct role in courtship rituals. Times, Sunday Times
I knew it would be an elaborate fantasy, a courtship, a serenade.
The brief courtships I held in virile adolescence ended in either tragedy of my own doing or forced adieu; both similar to the other, really.

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