Example sentences for: virgins

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

  • Not only does de Hooch play with two ways--secular and sacred--of "educating virgins," but he deliberately desecrates, with bits of a smashed pipe and rolling paper, that immaculate expanse of floor.

  • In the circular Temple of Vesta, the sacred flame perpetuating the Roman state was tended by six Vestal Virgins who, from childhood, observed a 30-year vow of chastity on fear of being buried alive if they broke it.

  • The online virgins scam has unraveled.

  • 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.

  • Amazing events were enacted in the minds of readers, conjured by these suggestive qualifiers: virgins dreamt of knights-at-arms on white chargers; dirty old men elaborated prurient extravagances.


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