Example sentences for: chastity

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

  • To those who bemoan the loss of the chastity of the French language, all I can say is that the lady never was a virgin: French is essentially mutated Latin corrupted by Arabic, Gaulish, and Germanic, to name a few of the seducers.

  • Examples: Americans value chastity because it prevents AIDS, temperance because it's healthy, and marriage because it produces well-adjusted children.

  • If you're going to have chastity, you're going to have jokes about the power of sex to overthrow that ludicrous vow.

  • She commissioned Correggio to decorate it in 1519 (his first work) with mischievous putti angels and a very pagan view of Chastity as symbolized by the goddess Diana.

  • In the circular Temple of Vesta, the sacred flame perpetuating the Roman state was tended by six Vestal Virgins who, from childhood, observed a 30-year vow of chastity on fear of being buried alive if they broke it.


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