Example sentences for: polygamous

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

  • Unfortunately, monogamy is hard to sustain given our species' naturally polygamous bent.

  • And, in polygamous societies, low-status males weren't exactly pacifists either.

  • The practice of polygamy was outlawed just before the turn of the century, but polygamous families persist down to the present day.

  • Note its ingeniousness: To repress the powerful polygamous impulse in men, you employ their equally powerful thirst for social status.

  • Now angry former wives are organizing outreach groups, and vast polygamous clans are facing charges of pedophilia and sexual abuse.


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