Example sentences for: copulate

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

  • Cassidy offered an intriguing explanation: the metaphor probably originated in Caribbean folklore, which has it that sea turtles (the referent for caouane in standard French dictionaries) copulate for a hundred days at a time.

  • The Chinese tried to obliterate Buddhist culture: Celibate nuns and priests were forced to copulate in the street; others were crucified or dragged to death by horses.

  • Swive (1386), to copulate (1483) with a female, shares with swinging (1400), a sense of motion, the former deriving from swivel (1307), a coupling device which accounts for the swivel chair.

  • So females also compete for mates, though they look for the ones most willing and able to invest, not the ones most willing to copulate (those are never in short supply).


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