Words similar to mates

Example sentences for: mates

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

If to my trip counselors I was a miscegenating rebel, and if to Ofra's uncle, whose censure I still remembered, I was a godforsaken secular Jew, and if to Devin's mates I was that locker-room joke, the lubricious JAP, and if in the eyes of the Muslim men observing us while they played sheshhesh in the market cafes I was a representative of dissolute America, the country of women who are beyond whoredom, then the weight of these clashing systems of control and expectation around female sexuality was just too much.
Like their soul mates in Montana, ROT members have also issued $3 million worth of bad checks, purchasing weapons, computers, and provisions.
One is that potential mates can be sure you're a human and, hence, biologically worth mating with.
These were the age matched cage mates of those rats run on the treadmill (2 rats per cage).
Gould puts the posited difference this way: Women, in theory, "should act in such a way as to encourage male investment after impregnation (protection, feeding, economic wealth, and subsequent child care), whereas men would rather wander right off in search of other mates in a never-ending quest for maximal genetic spread."