How to Use sexless in a Sentence
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But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
—Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
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We have been married for 14 years, the last six of which have been sexless and loveless.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
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That way everyone who wants to can get their rocks off and not feel left out in the sexless cold.
—Richard Lawson, Vanities, 5 July 2017
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Maybe a tidy, sexless peck and then a realer, juicier smooch?
—Susanna Wolff, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
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All those big-haired 1980s power ballads, once a guilty pleasure, prove well-suited to the high-gloss camp and sexless raunch of rock opera.
—Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018
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Toward a stage, where a seemingly nude and sexless version of herself is crouched on the ready.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
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Boys wore skirts and shorts in baby pink trimmed with ruffles, while women wore sexless, slick vinyl uniforms.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2017
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In short, if your current sexless state was working for you and your husband, then the norm — whatever that is — wouldn't matter.
—Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
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Miranda’s husband, Steve, once a virile nice guy, is now sexless and hard of hearing.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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Perhaps footwear manufacturers fear that knots are the genitals of a shoe and, as on a smooth and sexless store mannequin, must not be shown.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
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Luke by this point is sexless and undesiring, a politician’s notion of Young Heroism.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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The sexless phenomenon has made its way into pop culture.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
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And The Book of Joan depicts a decimated Earth with a pod of now-sexless humans living in a hodgepodge space station and carving stories into their own skin.
—Jane Ratcliffe, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Before Rose, the only other women at the ranch are a bosomy older cook and a girlish helper, both conveniently sexless.
—New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
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Food became a neutral zone, apolitical and sexless, of pure pleasure.
—Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
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No less than Peter Thiel has called the gleaming center of America’s tech industry a totally sexless place.
—The Cut, 22 June 2017
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No artificial colors, no carabiners and dangling straps and sexless sea foam green fleece.
—Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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Lucifer is cast as a classically handsome youth, his nude but sexless body stretched out horizontally, edge to edge across a nearly 2-foot-wide sheet.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
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Miranda has a high-powered career as a lawyer but is constantly cast as a sexless spinster, a pseudo-lesbian. Consider the arcs of the four main characters.
—Default Friend, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
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But seeing myself as this undateable, sort of sexless person, even if that wasn’t outwardly visible to people, weighed on me.
—New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
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Getting hitched while either of these planets is tracking backwards is a surefire way to end up in a loveless, sexless union, according to Miller, founder of Astrology Zone.
—Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
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Tarzan story serves as a partial antidote to complaints about sexless superhero movies.
—Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 18 June 2021
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Minus one vague romantic subplot, Vampires vs. the Bronx is entirely sexless, giving the movie room to explore Stoker’s other, more poignant themes.
—Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
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Her frankness and grit in this moment seemed like a corrective, at least to the first part, although her staid and sexless performance also felt at odds, in some fundamental way, with the spirit of Michael’s discography.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
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Indeed, the avatars of time management and fashion games are featureless and sexless, with monochromatic, usually white skin and one or two pixels suggesting a nose.
—Deirdre Coyle, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
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Momming, by contrast, seems to prize quietude, conformity, beige eyeshadow and sexless, ill-fitting pants.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
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As the image of Asian men was once, in part, the architecture of racist legislation, the sexless, undesirable trope was further confirmed by Hollywood depictions of the race.
—NBC News, 22 June 2020
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As at Loewe, the classic bustier dress–maybe the most conservative silhouette in all of menswear, reducing a woman to a sort of busty but sexless mermaid–got the supernatural treatment, with a stormy cloud of fabric at the bust.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2022
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It’s bloodless, heartless, joyless, sexless and, with one exception, charmless.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
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Al is a stand-in for a model minority: an unthreatening, sexless, subservient presence in Riley's home.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
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