Example sentences for: celibacy

How can you use “celibacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Armand Leroi puts it: “During occasional periods of involuntary celibacy I have thought, well, I may not be getting laid, but at least I shall live to a miserable and solitary old age.”

  • It attributes the plummet in the number of men entering the priesthood to pedophilia scandals, disillusionment with celibacy, and "the increasingly secular nature of American life."

  • But who can resist a smirk when a female network broadcaster observes that with respect to celibacy in the priesthood, “the pontiff remains firm.”

  • The demographer sticks to vitamin supplements, and while the evolutionary biologist calculates the compensations of celibacy, the population biologist transplants gonads, but so far only those of his laboratory mice.

  • Critics coo about this new show featuring an inner-city priest who sends a parishioner to an abortion clinic and considers breaking his own celibacy vows.


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