All the senior partners in his law firms had flirtations with coronary incidents except him.
Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation!
His cool flirtation with death and his ambiguous fate were the stuff from which legends are born.
She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.
She manages her customers expertly, often through a bantering kind of flirtation, the chief idiom of the night.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►brief flirtation
He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.
►mild flirtation
She had no objection to a little mild flirtation.
►had ... brief flirtation
She had a brief flirtation with Tim.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►brief
· A brief flirtation with the Communist Party - done mainly to shock, he supposed.
►mild
· She had enjoyed the camaraderie of colleagues, and the mild flirtation which often underlay it.· Constanze was clearly not ill enough to be incapable of a little mild flirtation!· None the less, an element of mild flirtation makes office life more pleasant.
1[countable] a short period of time during which you are interested in somethingflirtation with He started his own business last year, after a brief flirtation with political life.2[uncountable] behaviour that shows you are attracted to someone sexually: She had no objection to a little mild flirtation.3[countable] a short sexual relationship which is not seriousSYN flingflirtation with She had a brief flirtation with Tim.