Example sentences for: virgins

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

  • The Nonomiya Shrine is uniquely renowned for its special role in preparing imperial princesses to serve as vestal virgins at the Grand Shrine of Ise, Japan’s most important Shinto shrine (see page 9).

  • These days, half of all couples live together before marriage, and less than one-fifth are virgins on their wedding night.

  • The ancient Chinese emperor Fei-ti, Ridley explained, had a harem of 10,000 virgins and "was expected to make love to two a day, and was trained in special techniques to make sure that he could manage this."

  • There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.

  • Newspapers took it up, running story after story about virgins sold to drooling aristocrats.


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