How to Use bisexual in a Sentence

bisexual

adjective
  • People who are bisexual often say they are attracted to genders like their own, as well as genders different than their own.
    Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 27 May 2021
  • In a 2017 tweet, Thompson claimed that Valkyrie was bisexual.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • But about 80 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members do, as do about 84 percent of transgender people.
    Sarah Scoles, Wired, 28 May 2021
  • Rosaline is bisexual, and the novel grapples with that identity, particularly in the assumptions others make about her.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 June 2021
  • The colors of the bisexual flag are pink, purple, and blue.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Gressier is bisexual, and at the time this was known only to close friends and colleagues.
    Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The film is told from the perspective of Nathan’s best friend, who is bisexual.
    NBC News, 26 June 2021
  • More gay and bisexual men are now able to donate blood.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Now, a research team in China is the first to have completed such a study of gay and bisexual men.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Across age groups, 51% of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults have used a dating site or app.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Still, the vaccines have been in short supply as gay and bisexual men clamor for shots.
    Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • But Krouse is bisexual, and knows the assistant should have asked.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
  • At age 14 or 15, Teran came out to Belkis — first as gay, and then later as bisexual.
    Hilary Beaumont, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Most of all, there’s the season’s focus on Nick’s struggle to come out as bisexual.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is the first quiz with Joe Lycett, God’s perfect bicon (bisexual icon).
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • As health minister, one of O’Neill’s first acts was to lift the province’s ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood.
    Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The bisexual polyamorous male protagonist as its lead sang out and won the readers' hearts at the Gaming Mag too.
    Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The old rules were far more restrictive in screening out gay or bisexual men.
    Christina Jewett, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Later in 2021, the FDA launched a study of gay and bisexual men to determine whether the rules could be further updated.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • For more than 30 years, policies in the United States have banned gay and bisexual men from donating blood.
    Scott Jelinek, STAT, 5 Feb. 2023
  • In 1983, the FDA issued a lifetime ban on blood donations for gay and bisexual men.
    Cami Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The bisexual pair reunites by accident in Europe, where both have ended up on the same food-and-wine tour.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • On Twitter, many hailed Heche as one of the first publicly bisexual stars in Hollywood.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Last Friday, LA county confirmed that some of the cases were among gay and bisexual men.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • The men worked in finance or real estate and the women were vaguely bisexual.
    Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • Yet, there are many words that someone chooses to use rather than (or in conjunction with) bisexual.
    Kasandra Brabaw, refinery29.com, 5 July 2024
  • There was about the same percentage of gay or bisexual pirates as your own workplace, but it was not discussed and it was considered to be a crime.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Zuniga, who is bisexual, has been with her partner for about four years.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The gay and bisexual men in their 50s and 60s who are now entering the prime demographic for prostate cancer also lived through the worst of the AIDS epidemic.
    Steve Kenny, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Next, the comic Alec Flynn, in a Cranberries T-shirt, argued that men should be permitted to claim to be bisexual as casually as women do.
    Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024

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