How to Use heteronormative in a Sentence

heteronormative

adjective

• The books that made sense to me at the time were those that questioned the primacy of the heteronormative family.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
• This is not the first time JoJo has taken a stand against the heteronormative media.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Aug. 2021
• Swagger is a way of walking away from, or through, the tough conditions of a heteronormative world.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 May 2018
• Stop being so heteronormative and get with the program.
  — Sean Hotchkiss, GQ, 1 Oct. 2017
• The narrative is very heteronormative (and to be honest, very bland).
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 28 May 2018
• These are things that need to be further introduced to the heteronormative mainstream.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018
• This man who seems like the ultimate heteronormative prize.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• But Lizzo is far from heteronormative, or even mainstream in the traditional sense of that word.
  — Alex Blynn, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2019
• By the way, most of these studies are still talking about cisgender and heteronormative couples.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2023
• Once upon a time, not so long ago, Valentine’s Day was a strictly heteronormative affair.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2018
• There are other types of spaces which are more, say, heteronormative and Black, or commercial and Black, where maybe the values are different.
  — Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• Whiteside has tried to carve out a space for himself as a gay man who is not heteronormative in an art form that has for centuries depicted men as princes courting women.
  — Avichai Scher, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2019
• There he was surrounded by people who didn’t fit a heteronormative mold—some his own age, some who had already come into great success.
  — Chris Weller, Newsweek, 1 May 2014
• Andrea flees back to Portland and vows to live free of heteronormative artifice, despite the personal costs.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• And even though there are still a plethora of heteronormative love triangles and television often still adheres to the status quo, nuance has crept in.
  — Lorena O’Neil, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• That’s certainly the case with Lil Nas X who’s being asked for more music, to capitulate to cis-heteronormative standards, to push further, and more.
  — Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• So the person that we’re supposed to love the most is typically somebody that forms a heteronormative relationship with us that leads to children.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2023
• In locker rooms, on fields and on courts, male athletes are taught to embrace heteronormative standards of masculinity.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2021
• But Waithe bucks the heteronormative tropes somewhat by keeping things in Denise’s perspective.
  — Cate Young, Vulture, 24 May 2021
• And much of the language around it seemed to mimic that of monogamy—the model for love, deeply rooted in heteronormative institutions, that many people knew most intimately.
  — Jaya Saxena, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Isn’t so much of American culture—our movies, our TV, our sports, our music—already a paean to white, heteronormative America, coded or not?
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 21 June 2017
• Fire Island is one of several films that attempted to upend the genre’s white, heteronormative, fatphobic tropes this year.
  — Amel Mukhtar, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2022
• Lovato expressed their desire to shave their head earlier this year, telling Glamour their hair choices of late have been an attempt to break free from the heteronormative box to which they've been confined.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• Will’s slap was a physical assault, a tearing down of another Black man to reclaim his heteronormative power in that very public realm.
  — Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2022
• The singer reportedly insisted that the video's love triangle break the heteronormative mold.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
• The idea of girls asking guys (or vice versa) is heteronormative, and the whole concept that there are only people who identify as either girls or boys is entirely false and harmful.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2022
• In our heteronormative culture, a pansexual Lando Calrissian is no threat to Han Solo as the dominant lead in the film.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 18 May 2018
• The stress and discomfort that manifests in my body from its daily encounter with misogynoir and cis-heteronormative culture melts away.
  — Martine Thompson, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2020
• His confident swagger opened up new spaces for countless other men of color to present themselves in less heteronormative ways.
  — Angel E. Fraden, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
• For Violet and Corky, crime promises tantalizing freedom from the weight of a heteronormative society.
  — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024