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Synonyms for make advances


Grammar : Verb

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Définition of make advances

  • As in socialize : verb be friendly at gatherings
  • As in woo : verb seek as romantic partner
  • As in nationalize : verb socialize
Example sentences :
  • He was not just then in a mood either to make advances or to receive them.
  • Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • The family of the young man should be the first to make advances.
  • Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway
  • It was not her place to make advances, all too likely to be rebuffed.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean » by Pauline Lester
  • For there are few men in the world who make advances where there is no encouragement.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Then the Duke of Shrewsbury said he thought that Duke was not used to make advances.
  • Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift
  • In order to make advances the most diverse methods were used, as was said before.
  • Extract from : « A German deserter's war experience » by Anonymous
  • For a moment he was afraid that she was going to make advances, but she passed on.
  • Extract from : « A Virgin Heart » by Remy de Gourmont
  • They have not been willing to make advances on farms that cannot be made to pay.
  • Extract from : « One Irish Summer » by William Eleroy Curtis
  • It was so difficult for her to make advances, so fatally easy for him to rebuff them.
  • Extract from : « The Nest Builder » by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
  • They will pay all bank-notes in full, and will make advances not exceeding 15s.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Crayon's Recollections » by J. Ewing Ritchie

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