How to Use sexuality in a Sentence

sexuality

noun
  • She is comfortable with her sexuality.
  • Julia Fox is ready to open up to the public about her sexuality.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 9 July 2024
  • The film captures how much Michael was tormented by the drive to hide his sexuality.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • Though Billie Eilish has been open about her sexuality in the past, don’t expect to hear much from her about it again.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Add in a true panic over sexuality and how to have fun with it and many of the 2022 musicals seemed grounded mostly in fear.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Some of it was about my sexuality, my gender, my class.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • If men in reggaetón can speak about their sexuality this way, I was struck to see a woman doing it.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The film starts with him as a young kid, becoming aware of his sexuality at a time when Stonewall is happening.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Was the bohemian, very open sexuality of everybody in the movie all saved for the camera?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The film tackles the R&B icon’s rich career as well as his battles with his sexuality and overeating.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The film drips with sweat — as much from the sexuality radiating off its three central characters as from the heat of the sun over the Mexican desert.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The main characters struggle with their sexuality and questions of right and wrong while trying to get through high school.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • The most important message here is to not lose faith in your sexuality or give up on feeling like a woman.
    Clea Shearer, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2024
  • In the new film, there are many lessons for older tweens and teens around gender roles, history, sexuality, and even the positive impacts that the arts can have.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Eliza Hittman’s films come to mind, too, for their portraits of a world that, in the quietest ways, punishes young women for having a sexuality at all.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Many trans-health providers have also honed their skills in speaking frankly about sexuality.
    Rachel E. Gross, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Max seems to run from himself in ways beyond his sexuality too.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Was London really this advanced in the 1920s whereby all the culture wars about sexuality that took place in the U.S. in between were leapfrogged?
    John Tamny, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • While the drama centers around Jackie’s romance with Kristin Stewart’s Lou, the movie is about so much more than their sexuality.
    Pam Moore, C.p.t., SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Mostly, the movie handles his sexuality in a no-big-whoop fashion, with no one—not even his macho grandfather—the least bit fazed by it.
    Craig D Lindsey, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Since the podcast launched in late March, Noles and Swarts have weighed in on infidelity, dating after the death of a spouse, polyamory, talking to your kids about their sexuality and more.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Dana Atkinson, a strings technician, talked about coming to terms with his sexuality as a young man.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But the Netflix movie shows Black power brokers used his sexuality as a wedge between him and King in an attempt to control them both.
    Diane Garrett, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, many credit the film’s depiction of men in drag (along with murder, gambling, and open sexuality) with helping weaken the Hays Code once and for all.
    Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 17 June 2024
  • Lee both is Burroughs and yet not Burroughs, but the two overlap, notably in the expression of their sexuality.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
  • What’s more, their sexuality never seemed to be the main topic of discussion.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The siblings said that their mother grew to accept their sexuality and support them.
    Jack Healy, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • There’s no evidence that atrazine could have the same effect in humans, let alone impact gender or sexuality.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Rihanna’s decision to double down on owning and flaunting her sexuality in spite of the patriarchy’s attempts to silence and conceal her became paramount to her brand going forward.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024

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