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Example sentences for: mates

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If a queen mates with a male of her own strain, her offspring will be queens, and if she mates with a male from the other strain, the sperm will give rise to workers.
Furthermore, women need to realize that, because selection favored males who had many mates, men tend to read signals of acceptance into a woman's actions even when no such signals are intended.
Just the careful hair of each (unconvincingly dark for Dole, unconvincingly gray for Clinton), the contrasting hair of their running mates (soberly dark for Gore, youthfully gray for Kemp), and similar suits on all the very different bodies.
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
It's as if a female mates with one male to produce her offspring's somatic cells, and another to produce its germ cells.