Example sentences for: monogamous

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

  • Another's "basic point": "I don't think it's realistic to expect most relationships to be sexually monogamous and to last a lifetime."

  • Imagine a country where almost all women are monogamous, while all men demand two female partners per year.

  • But if each of those monogamous wives was willing to take on one extramarital partner, the market for prostitution would die out, and the virus, unable to spread fast enough to maintain itself, might die out along with it.

  • Herbert Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (1976) showed that slave families, while often broken up when members were sold or assigned to different plantations, were remarkably monogamous and stable.

  • Another is economic: Prohibiting adultery preserves monogamous relationships and thence families, whose labor was needed for agriculture.


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