Example sentences for: sex

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

  • I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.

  • While sex and birth order are immutable, the other factors likely serve as surrogates for a combination of maternal exposures such as stress, socioeconomic position, and nutrition, and thus are not permanently bound to differences in fetal growth for future populations.

  • Never mind that the very existence of sex addiction is questioned by most respectable shrinks.

  • And during last week's holiday rerun, the micro-skirted minx fell into her Christmas tree and lay entangled in the branches until her roommate came in and marveled that Ally's sex life had deteriorated to the point where she was humping the Christmas tree.

  • I read that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has gone on record saying that homosexuality is not only "a sin, but just another problem like alcoholism, sex addiction, and kleptomania."


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