Example sentences for: chastity

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

  • For quoting a Vietnam-era line of graffiti, “Fighting for peace is like fxxxing (my cryptic spelling throughout) for chastity,” the witty columnist Molly Ivins was blasted in a long letter to the editor of The Progressive . In contrast, we have the story about the ten-year-old who, caving in to the nagging of his ever-suspicious grandmother, admits that his grandfather did indeed let slip a “dirty” word ( shmuck ) on their fishing trip, but won't quote it: “What I can tell you is that it rhymes with fxxx.”

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

  • The superb frescoes of the life of Jesus in the St. Mary Magdalen Chapel (closest to altar on the right nave) and of St. Francis’s vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience above the elegant Gothic high altar are attributed to Giotto (1307) and his workshop.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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