Example sentences for: monogamy

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

  • Take the idea that men became less competitive because women insisted on monogamy, which lowers testosterone.

  • America, in this sense, is a conspiracy against human nature--and not just in that we expect monogamy when the rule of history has been polygamy.

  • If multiple partnerships save lives, then monogamy can be deadly.

  • By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon , Metroland , and Among Giants , which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.

  • True monogamy, then, would seem a very worthwhile institution.


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