How to Use nonsexual in a Sentence
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Hacks is part of a revival of shows that apply the tropes of the rom-com to the possibilities of nonsexual relationships.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 July 2021
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The bottle's first victims are Alexis and Stevie, who share a pretty nonsexual peck on the lips before Alexis spins on to her own tipsy boyfriend.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
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There are also brief moments of female nudity from the side and back, but in a strictly nonsexual context.
—Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
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The New South Wales government does say that a small proportion of cases have occurred through skin-to-skin nonsexual contact.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
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Already, the virus has begun to hop across genders and age groups, leveraging other, nonsexual forms of close contact.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022
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And just four, or 0.8%, were considered to have transmitted through nonsexual close contact.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 July 2022
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The movie is anchored not just in a single housing complex but in a distinctive, academicized milieu; the protagonists’ nonsexual affinities are set up from the start.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
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Here are some answers to common questions about nonsexual affairs.
—Denise Schipani, Woman's Day, 16 Jan. 2017
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The etiquette for nude men when women arrive, then, is not to rush and cover up, but rather, as my director sagely advised, to avoid sexualizing a nonsexual encounter.
—Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2021
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Other files uploaded to Garza’s account included nonsexual pictures of himself and pictures of his three children.
—Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2022
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Designating the attacks as nonsexual, according to the school system attorney’s arguments in federal court, would move the case away from Title IX and dismiss a key claim made by the victims’ families.
—Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
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In a study at Pennsylvania State University, students who gave five nonsexual hugs a day to as many different people as possible (one hug per person) for a month felt happier.
—Gretchen Rubin, Good Housekeeping, 3 May 2013
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In response to the pandemic, Hutchinson allowed six hundred and forty-eight prisoners who were serving sentences for nonviolent, nonsexual offenses, and were within six months of their release, to go home.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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Despite its nonsexual appearance, the ad is noteworthy in its absence across the valuable real estate of Meta properties Instagram and Facebook.
—Rory Satran, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
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The Health Department’s guidance to the public has often highlighted nonsexual routes of potential transmission, such as hugging or contact with bedding.
—New York Times, 18 July 2022
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Hyten denied the assertions, saying that Spletstoser made 34 additional, nonsexual accusations against him and his staff members after she was pushed out.
—Karoun Demirjian, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
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The license allows customers to hire women for nonsexual companionship.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
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Any individual video might be intended as nonsexual, perhaps uploaded by parents who wanted to share home movies among family.
—Amanda Taub, New York Times, 3 June 2019
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Oral herpes is usually acquired early in childhood or adolescence from nonsexual contact with saliva.
—Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
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The other officer formerly on Hyten’s team, who lacked authorization to speak publicly, suggested that the Army colonel also raised allegations of a nonsexual nature against Hyten that weren’t substantiated.
—Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
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The situations that fuel it—connections, confusions, desires both unrequited and fulfilled—can pertain just as readily to nonsexual relationships and the many other ways people have of coming together and breaking apart.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
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That’s when California officials approved realignment, sending people convicted of felonies that are nonviolent, nonsexual and nonserious to serve prison sentences in county jails rather than state prisons.
—Jason Pohl, ProPublica, 19 Aug. 2019
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In the series, demons are persistently motivated to invade the homes of bourgeois American families and can only be helped by this perfectly heterosexual—but profoundly nonsexual—couple of demon experts.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 June 2021
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Period pieces also put a focus on witty, subtle dialogue and meaningful, nonsexual encounters that nonetheless simmer with tension.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 31 July 2022
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Gurelle said there are nonviolent and nonsexual signs of domestic abuse that do not constitute criminal offenses that the public should be aware of, including manipulation, isolation and intimidation.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2021
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His letters also included instances of nonsexual intimidation, assault and harassment.
—New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
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Others fell under the categories of unprofessional behavior, including bullying, retaliation, physical security and other nonsexual forms of harassment.
—Mike Isaac, New York Times, 6 June 2017
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Popular treatment methods include prayer, masturbatory reconditioning, cloistering individuals from society, and fostering nonsexual male bonding.
—Chelsea Greenwood Lassman, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2018
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