How To Use Propinquity In A Sentence
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With exaggerated pernickertiness the older man removed his half-empty glass from propinquity with the other's.
THE QUEST FOR K
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the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged!- and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge!
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Eight weeks came and went, -- eight wonderfully happy weeks to Debby and her friend; for "propinquity" had worked more wonders than poor Mrs. Carroll knew, as the only one she saw or guessed was the utter captivation of Joe Leavenworth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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I used to joke, “Nothing propinques like propinquity.”
The Good Fight
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He wondered if she really had any power to hurt him, if there resided in her any more potent charm than other women possessed, or if it were a mere sentimental befogging of his mind due to the physical propinquity of her at a time when he was weak and bruised and helpless.
Poor Man's Rock
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Carey, so powerful in propinquity, might even have ended by learning to love Tannis and marrying her, to his own worldly undoing.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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Ah, the propinquity of cheap life and expensive principles, of religion and banditry, of surprising honour and random cruelty.
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Sexual relationships tend to grow with propinquity and propinquity includes propinquity of work.
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Since propinquity is a common source of tensions, most particular attention was paid to avoiding intercommunion with other Lutherans who professed a seductive approximation of doctrinal agreement.
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Six weeks — appropinquity — opportunity — had victimised him completely.
Vanity Fair
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Frequency of successful exchange between taxa will depend on propinquity, metabolic compatibility, adaptations to their abiotic environment, gene expression systems, and gene transfer mechanisms.
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Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste.
The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
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His, had knavishly anisotropic taint in the new lutra trombicula prospicience, and had to dynamics to rigging awfully they saw any katabolism at all amazingly the caulescent propinquity apoidea everywhere.
Rational Review
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The father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence.
Olive A Novel
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Due to historical ties and geographic propinquity, until the middle of the 14th century, Galician and Portuguese were in fact the same language, known as ‘Galaico Portugues’.
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He found himself disgusted with their close propinquity.
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Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
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It may have been the effect of what Byron would call "blind contact," and the sage Mrs. Broadhurst "propinquity;" or it may have been that his hour was come.
The Partisan Leader: A Novel...
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Physical propinquity, propinquity in time and space, with relationship to disasters having a physical cause but resulting in nervous shock, to use that expression, may well - well, I would assume, does give rise to a relationship.
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He was not only the male heir in propinquity of blood, but his experienced years and known virtues excited all true Scots to place him on the throne.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
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But it is not the way for a man and a woman, in propinquity, to maintain a definite, unwavering distance asunder.
CHAPTER XXVII