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  • noun Plural form of flirtation.

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Examples

  • After 15 years of "flirtations" with calling baseball — his favorite sport and "the best announcer sport" — Enberg this season becomes a San Diego Padres announcer.

    Oh, my! Enberg leaves NCAA hoops for Padres 2010

  • A prominent Northern Transvaal National Party member has been suspended by the party for alleged "flirtations" with the African

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • To prevent "flirtations" he issued a decree forbidding women to appear on deck after sunset!

    The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia 1900

  • [414] This may seem to contradict, or at any rate to be inconsistent with, a passage above (p. 367) on the "flirtations" of Crébillon's personages.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • She talked of a score of "flirtations" at quadrille parties -- showed her friend half-a-dozen complimentary billets-doux which she had received, and all with the greatest unconcern.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • After 15 years of "flirtations" with calling baseball -- his favorite sport and "the best announcer sport" -- Enberg, 75, this season becomes a San Diego Padres announcer.

    Freep.com - RSS 2010

  • The alleged "flirtations" are often fictitious, but when they are not, they are frequently elevated to an exaggerated threat that speaks more about the mental instability of the offended than it does to the so-called offender.

    365 Gay News 2009

  • I don't need your adulterous flirtations right under my nose.

    poor Count Jandor... nathreee 2010

  • In Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals, they discuss their favorite novels while also talking about the insights those books have given them into their personal lives: their flirtations, infatuations, disappointments, desires, and even their romantic successes.

    Teddy Wayne: Interview With Maura Kelly, Author of Much Ado About Loving Teddy Wayne 2012

  • In Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals, they discuss their favorite novels while also talking about the insights those books have given them into their personal lives: their flirtations, infatuations, disappointments, desires, and even their romantic successes.

    Teddy Wayne: Interview With Maura Kelly, Author of Much Ado About Loving Teddy Wayne 2012

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