Example sentences for: phallic

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

  • Perhaps the fish is such a flexible metaphor because the general shape of its body is phallic, while its open mouth suggests the vagina.

  • Masculinity was allowed no erotic range in dress; the phallic necktie, licensed to reflect light and glow with color, was famously men's only hope.

  • Even his face has a phallic quality.

  • The sexual pulse of a lot of his objects--"There is something erotic in all my work," Smith admitted--is evident in loud titles for sculptures like She Who Must Be Obeyed and Jim's Piece . He constructed almost as many phallic shapes as Kusama and filled his notebooks with erotic doodlings comparing the sex organs of humans and flowers, or depicting Christ--Smith was a Catholic--with breasts.

  • This was proved Wednesday in New Delhi's Asian Age, which carried a cartoon showing a sick-looking fellow identified as the Indian "coalition government" being addressed by a doctor holding a phallic, rocketlike object labeled "nuclear test."


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