How to Use male in a Sentence

male

1 of 2 adjective

• Most extension cords have a male plug on one end and a female plug on the other.
• There were more male than female students.
• But the hope is that most of the bears killed will be male.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2024
• Fall is when the male deer – the bucks – will rub their antlers on the smaller trees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
• The adult male driver of the Trail Blazer was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• McClure won for artist of the year, male artist of the year and contemporary artist of the year.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 17 July 2023
• A lot of them had single moms who had to work, and not a lot of strong male guidance.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• But the character of Luke scared a lot of young male actors.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• All six male candidates donned ties in shades of red tonight—again.
  — WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• Pet of the week is a pup who loves to play fetch Animal: Perseus, 5-month-old male Shepherd blend.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• The two male teens got into a confrontation on an MTA bus, Chell said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• But for women, the question is also can their pay keep pace with their male peers?
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 11 May 2023
• The hotel was meant to start housing about 70 male asylum seekers as of this week.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Dear Amy: My longtime male friend and I have been together for over 15 years.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• And males played more than females (male bumblebees don't work for the colony and therefore have a lot more time on their hands).
  — Lars Chittka, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
• Scali and his team captured 60 male wall lizards from gardens across Milan.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• Colossus, the male funnel-web spider, was the last arachnid to hold the record for ARP's largest male in the antivenom program.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
• My favorite was a male patient in his 60s who had been a smoker most of his life and was dying of lung cancer.
  — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• At rehearsal, dancers heard footsteps on the stairs, but no one else was in the building, even after one of the male dancers volunteered to check.
  — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The cast of the spinoff series is made up of 13 female Islanders and 13 male Islanders, all of whom have appeared on a version of the show before.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• According to the lawsuit, the flight crew never seized the male attendant's cellphone for the duration of the flight.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Women here earn about 69 cents for every dollar their male peers make.
  — Michelle Lee, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• The male lead Radoslav Vladimirov was found two days before rehearsal began.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• There isn’t a single male artist featured inside the most competitive space on the chart, which is rare.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Flexible body – rare in a male dancer, especially at the time.
  — Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
• The mating calls of male Panama cross-banded tree frogs are synchronized to confuse bats and midges.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• Question 4 of 5 Which dogs live longer on average — male dogs or female dogs?
  — Helier Cheung, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The officer found a male dog lying unresponsive on the ground.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2024
• And this is only one of many traits that male birds-of-paradise possess to find female admirers.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2023
• The proportional increase is less than the male fighting force, which has more than tripled over the same period.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023

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male

2 of 2 noun

• The male of this species assists the female in feeding the young.
• She attended a school where there were more males than females.
• The militants then told the three males in the group to stand.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• For a long time, a hero looked like a white straight male.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• One of the males who was killed appears to be homeless.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Once the game ended, the unknown male drove a car toward Owens and clipped him.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The child is a Black male with brown eyes and may have his hair braided in cornrows.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• And most studies show Black males between the ages of 15 and 34 are the most affected.
  — Emma Obregón Dominguez, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• Police looked at the video and saw that the male was masturbating.
  — cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• Miller is not the first male to try out for the team, Ying said, but was the only one among the group of about 50 hopefuls this season.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning are males, the CDC says.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• In past years, the singing male brought prospective nesting partners to show them the empty nest box.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
• This all occurred while both bats were hanging upside down, with the male biting the nape of the female’s neck.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• The girl holds the family’s hamster in one hand and a razor blade in the other as three males berate her.
  — Chris Dehghanpoor, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• The officer found a 14-year male suffering from a gunshot wound, the email said, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Police described him as a bald male with blue eyes, weighing 200 pounds.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• Over three years, the study team observed 236 males who belonged to two distinct social groups within the colony.
  — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• In a video posted on YouTube, Grisham is approached by an adult male outside the school while in costume.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• The driver has been described as an older white male, police said.
  — Jolie Lash, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• According to the affidavit, the male walked towards the back sliding glass door and presumably left the scene.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• In fact, the females’ resting metabolic rates were higher than that of males.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• The other male who died was found later after search efforts.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
• My male co-workers told me they’d been warned not to be alone with me in order to avoid becoming suspects.
  — Elizabeth Endicott, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The deputies arrived to find two unresponsive adult males on the ground, each of whom suffered at least one gunshot wound.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
• Later, an adult male sitting 15 feet from me suddenly stands and beats his chest.
  — Noo Saro-Wiwa, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2023
• The other two suspects were only described as Black males.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 May 2023
• During the breeding season, males become bluish-green with darker bars and bright blue tones on the head and rusty orange chests.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• First responders were able to remove two males, the driver and a front-seat passenger, using the Jaws of Life.
  — Cristian Santana, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• The suspect, identified as a 33-year-old male from Detroit, was arrested near the restaurant.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024
• The male's abdomen is almost hollow, which helps amplify its song.
  — The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024

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