Example sentences for: virgins

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

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

  • 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.

  • These girls command a high price as “virgins” for brothel owners who do not want to disturb the situation by requiring condom use [29].

  • In the 16th-century Renaissance church of Madonna della Steccata (Via Garibaldi), Parmigianino painted the frescoes of the Foolish and Wise Virgins on the arch above the high altar.

  • 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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