How to Use hetero in a Sentence

hetero

noun

• There’s the bromance, and then there’s the hetero couple.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022
• What did all those white-on-white-let-alone-hetero love stories look like to me?
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• In the flirtation stage of a relationship, two men think the same way as a hetero couple.
  — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• That means that in hetero relationships, there are a lot of times when women carry your emotional burdens as well as their own.
  — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 11 May 2018
• And gay men are 50 percent more likely to report a cancer diagnosis than their hetero peers.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
• Love is love is love—although Shakespeare’s plot does continue to require a certain amount of hetero panic about cross-dressing.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• Many of his pictures, including some of his greatest, are, to put it bluntly, swoony hymns to hetero-normativity.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the lab, however, the researchers can explore the cryptic resistance, called hetero-resistance.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2018
• In cis hetero relationships, many women are unable to negotiate details such as use of a condom or whether to get pregnant.
  — Tlaleng Mofokeng, Teen Vogue, 14 Sep. 2018
• Determining whether the experiment succeeds is, of course, a matter of perspective, mine being that of a cis hetero white woman.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2023
• People from marginalized communities are exposed to far more harms, far more often, than people who enjoy the default protections of being cis, white, and hetero.
  — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 4 June 2020
• On average, the bimaternal mice were 20 percent lighter than their hetero-parental counterparts.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• One New York Post article pegged to the public kerfuffle cited a study suggesting gay women made more money then their hetero counterparts.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2022
• In a hetero relationship, whose responsibility is it to get dinner on the table?
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 29 Sep. 2022
• Also, this writing has been a decidedly cis hetero male perspective.
  — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• This salon employs hetereo/non-hetero individuals and this just truly sucks.
  — Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
• This attitude is familiar from Big Brother, but the magazine also featured hetero-friendly helpings of naked women.
  — Ed Halter, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
• These new stories aren’t coming-out narratives, or struggling-for-acceptance-in-a-hetero-cisgendered-world narratives.
  — Julia Carpenter, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
• These were feverish vision boards of hetero-normative matrimony, sultry brides in egg-white gowns and elaborate jewels posing in cavernous spaces.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
• Men on the other hand generally speaking are (hetero-normatively) encouraged to look neat and groomed without indulging too far into vanity.
  — Sable Yong, Allure, 25 Aug. 2017
• Goethe with an Italian girl (still unknown); Byron (surprisingly, given his earlier hetero history) with a beautiful Greek boy.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
• Lesbian women reported grooming slightly more than hetero or bisexual women, and bisexual men were most likely to go hairless.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 27 June 2019
• The hetero-patriarchal family, conservative concepts of women’s respectability, the white middle-class family must maintain itself if white supremacy, white privilege, and capitalism are to remain, which is what the U.S. is based on.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2022
• The act has historically been stigmatized, but has increasingly gained acceptance within the cis-hetero community, thanks to rising cultural visibility via shows like Broad City and movies like Deadpool.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
• Their options were limited, unwelcoming, and decidedly hetero.
  — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
• But these sub-populations in hetero-resistant bacteria appear genetically identical to their susceptible counterparts.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024