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
  • And of course kids are so confused and ignorant about sexuality to begin with, so to throw that on them?
    Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 10 Dec. 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
  • Through these critical changes, the show becomes a meditation on race, sexuality, and class in a way the 1994 film was not.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Oct. 2022
  • This was, without surprise, one of the best collections of the week, packed with strange messages about protection, sexuality, and kicking ass at the end of the world.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Lance Bass has revealed that he was once attached to an unnamed CW sitcom that was axed due to his sexuality.
    EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The role has prompted people to wonder about Starkey’s sexuality and whether he’s discussed it in real life.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 26 Nov. 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
  • And still crickets from the people who like to question celebrities’ sexuality.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024

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