Example sentences for: phallic

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

  • 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.

  • Wait a frigging second--could you please explain to me the phallic symbolism of herring?

  • 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.

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


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