Example sentences for: incest

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

  • The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.

  • Two very old romances still sung in the Southwest are “La Delgadina,” which deals with incest, and “La Aparición,” which dates from the fifteenth century in Spain.

  • Several decades later, companion volumes to the literary diaries revealed passionate incest with her father, Joachim Nin, an affair with her analyst, Otto Rank, and successfully bigamous marriages in New York and California.

  • Birch, unlike Clinton, had to give a principled answer--"uh, yes"--at which point Will and Bennett dragged her through the sordid exercise of distinguishing gay marriage from polygamy and incest.

  • However, incest tends to occur among families that are distant, not ones that are intimate.


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