Happy end of the month, dear friends! This will be the fourth time that I am posting a romantic sentence example for every Word-of-the-Day from the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. April was the month of showers, and it certainly didn’t disappoint here in Taiwan. With a bonus smattering of earthquakes from time to time. Thankfully, we’re okay and surviving. 

But let’s come back to the subject of romantic love, cherishing the rain by kissing in it. Here are my romantic sentences for April that contain both romance and a dash of humor.

I wish you all the best, blessings showered upon you, at the end of this month of April. I look forward to seeing you all again in May, the month of flowers!! 

Love, Gentleman Dave

PS – As always, please let me know which one struck your fancy in the comments.

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1. Shambles (place of confusion or disorder): More than a month has passed since they broke up, leaving her heart in shambles, possibility of recovery – zippo, but miracle of miracles, she did, and today she is a new woman with a man who absolutely adores her.

2. Ethereal (heavenly): Dressed in her long flowing ball gown with the shimmering tiara on her forehead, she glowed ethereal beauty, and he couldn’t take his eyes off of her for a second.

3. Lambaste (criticize sharply): Lambasted for his poor etiquette and untactful words, he was thrown out into the cold night, but she followed him and when she caught up with him, she confessed her gratitude to him for defending her honor.

4. Praxis (practical application of theory): She had never understood his continually obnoxious romantic praxis, for he had spoiled her for years with kindness until she gave in and fell in love with him, realizing he was one of a kind.

5. Meticulous (extreme care of details) Dressing for the ball, she was as meticulous about what she wore – or didn’t wear – as she ever had been, for she had never dated a prince before.

6. Redoubt (place of protection) The windy storms of worry lashed at her heart in fear that he wouldn’t show, but she took refuge in the redoubt of his promise that he would be there, for he had never failed to keep a promise.

7. Conjecture (assumption without proof): “Stop conjecturing over whether or not I am wearing much beneath this frock and come investigate for yourself, detective.”

8. Fatuous (to say it is foolish or silly) The fact remained that she had continually made up dozens of fatuous schemes to escape from the palace gates in order to meet his carriage as he passed on the way.

9. Aegis (the power to protect) She would never simply flaunt her title of princess under the aegis of the palace royalty, but to gain entrance into his bridge games at the private social club, she had to use desperate measures.

10. Vicarious (emotion felt by seeing, hearing, or reading it done): Under the tall oak tree whose leaves whispered in the afternoon breeze, she felt a vicarious thrill as she read Dave A. Gardener’s latest romance novel that made her gasp and blush and bite her thumbnail.

11. Discomfit (to make confused or upset) Throughly shaken after their first meeting, she knew it was not his intention to discomfit her heart as he gazed into her eyes, and she wouldn’t have been if she hadn’t already been spoken for.

12. Surfeit (too much more than you need) The love that overflowed from his heart was the surfeit that would never run dry, now that he knew they would always find each smack dab in the center of forever.

13. Brusque (direct and unfriendly talk) She had had enough of his brusque humor that was meant to humiliate her in front of the dinner guests, so she tipped over the whole pot of soup into his lap and stormed from the table.

14. Furlong (unit of distance in horse racing – 201 meters) The longer he stayed away, the more her love grew for him by the furlong until he returned home, as she hopped on him, straddled his waist, and kissed him until her lungs were crying out for air.

15. Purloin (to steal it) Gazing with lust into his gorgeous brown eyes, she purloined the opportunity to slide her hands into his coat and caress his obliques.

16. Inalienable (impossible to take away or give up) She had always tossed her hat in with their interpretation of her inalienable rights, but one of them was certainly not streaking across the quad with her boyfriend and the rest of the fraternity brothers from Phi Omega Mu.

17. Circumlocution (using too many words or evasive language) After his babbling on for hours with circumlocution that had bored her to tears, she finally posed the question, “So do you love me or what?”

18. Qua (synonym of as) In the end, it was actually not his crooked teeth that ruined her opinion of him, but his claim as a man qua romantique that he couldn’t back up with a single gesture of love.

19. Underwhelm (fail to impress) Call her superficial, but after hearing his husky Herculean voice on the phone, she was underwhelmed, to say the least, when he showed up on their date looking like a homeless junkie.

20. Gingerly (very cautious or careful) As she leaned in for a kiss, she brought up the subject with the most gingerly tact she could muster, letting him know with a nonverbal gesture that in spite of his use of three toothpicks on their walk home, he still had spinach in his teeth from their date at Olive Garden.

21. Noblesse oblige (the higher class is obliged to help the lower) It was hardly noblesse oblige when he reached down to help the poor flower girl up from the dirty cobbles but simply a gesture to help someone in need, and when she stood up and her eyes glimmered in his, he just knew he would be with her forever.

22. Palpable (obvious, notable) And when they gazed into each other’s eyes, the love between them was palpable, as if the whole world had come to a standstill and it was only him and her … and Blossom, her poodle.

23. Exodus (many people leave a place) After the concert, amid the exodus into the highways and byways of the city, he remembered her note that she had conveniently slipped into his shorts during the final song, and he frantically pulled it out, wishing, hoping for her contact information, but all it said was, “You’re cute.”

24. Burgeon (grow or develop quickly) It was during their semester at Oxford when their relationship really began to burgeon, and he wondered if popping the question was appropriate between an Oxford graduate and a nun.

25. Tendentious (strongly biased point of view) Written with the harshest language known to man, he pressed his quill pen to the scroll and wrote the tendentious manifesto in less than an hour, but she was unimpressed with his irrational childish squalor and threw the scroll in the brook, where it remains to this day.

26. Homage (to pay respect or honor) Her kiss was a lovely sweet candy that lingered long after their lips parted, a work of art that could have paid homage to the magical spells that surrounded them that night by the campfire in the forest glade.

27. Assail (relating to violent or powerful confrontations) Leaning over the edge of the bridge, she cried a river of tears, for after she had caught him kissing her cousin, her heart was assailed with doubt over whether or not he was still the man she should marry.

28. Ken (range of understanding or knowledge) Secretly meeting him under the bridge at dawn was utter foolishness, as her mother had put it, and far outside her ken when it came to dating fancy rich snobs, but she didn’t care, for he was the only one at the ball who would even bat an eyelash at her.

29. Inviolable (too important to ignore or disrespect) It wasn’t that she despised men of his caliber; it was just that her inviolable standards repelled all men within rifle range.

30. Demagogue (an evil political leader who uses intimidation tactics) Well, she thought, at least he wasn’t one of those demagogues who assailed his opponents with insults and baseless accusations to get ahead; he was smart and sweet and kind and, when she thought about it, had no business being in politics.