Example sentences for: same-sex

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

  • If only one partner in a same-sex marriage had substantial earnings, the couple would realize a much higher rate of return on that partner's Social Security taxes than they would have if unwed or earning comparable incomes.

  • If the Supreme Court extends the provision to cover marriage, the federal Defense of Marriage Act--as well as the state laws barring same-sex unions--would quite likely be deemed unconstitutional.

  • Twin analyses employing diverse socioeconomic measures capturing circumstances earlier versus later in adult life could also potentially yield insight into the impact of cumulative socioeconomic position on health, with interpretation of results for monozygotic twins, including patterns of within-pair variability, aided by comparison to results to same-sex dizygotic twins.

  • If both partners have roughly equal incomes--which may be the case more often among same-sex couples than among opposite-sex ones--getting married will raise their taxes.

  • Anticipating this strategy, Congress passed the "Defense of Marriage Act" in 1996, declaring that states would not be compelled to recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere.


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