How to Use sodomy in a Sentence

sodomy

noun

• The United States struck down its sodomy laws only in 2003.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• The United States struck down its sodomy laws only in 2003.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• The 20-year-old is charged with rape and forcible sodomy in the February incident.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 15 June 2017
• Each is charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy in the Friday night attack.
  — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2017
• Soon after, McCluskey—who was gay—decided to challenge the Texas laws against sodomy.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• After Mahathir fired Anwar in 1998, Anwar spent the next six years in prison on convictions for abuse of power and sodomy.
  — Pooi Koon Chong, Bloomberg.com, 17 July 2017
• Osby was arrested two years ago on three counts of kidnapping, one count of rape and one count of sodomy, according to court records.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 9 May 2017
• This time, he’s accused of the rape and aggravated criminal sodomy of two women, 18 and 21 at the time of the alleged offenses.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 24 June 2017
• In fact, repression of gay Saudis is not only commonplace in the kingdom but sanctioned, and sodomy is cause for the death penalty.
  — Pablo Mhanna-Sandoval, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
• In January 2016, Zumwalt was charged with two counts of second-degree rape, sodomy and three counts of domestic assault.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 13 Sep. 2017
• Meili has been charged with child kidnapping, statutory sodomy and statutory rape, court records show.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
• The legislation would have added to the list additional forms of rape, sodomy and human trafficking.
  — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• The constitutional court is hearing a case that may result in sodomy becoming a crime.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• The son of an accountant and a teacher, both conservative Protestants from Nebraska, Hefner over the years spoke out against sodomy laws.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• The law prohibits a judge from ordering probation in certain sex crimes such as rape, sodomy and forced oral copulation.
  — Veronica Rocha, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Daniel Ray Dunn, 28, is now charged with a total of three counts of first-degree sodomy, producing pornography with a minor and bestiality.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 2 June 2017
• Prosecutors have twice brought charges of sodomy against Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the opposition coalition, who began his second jail term in 2015.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Unwanted fondling was the most common type of assault; about 20 percent of the victims were subjected to rape, sodomy or other form of penetration.
  — Emily Schmall, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2017
• Granados-Zeledon has been charged with second-, third- and fourth-degree sex offense, child abuse, sexual abuse of a minor, sodomy and second-degree assault.
  — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 9 June 2017
• Just last week, Parliament voided convictions under an anti-sodomy law sharpened by the Nazis and then preserved by West Germany.
  — Stephanie Kirchner, Washington Post, 30 June 2017
• Williams was arraigned in court Friday afternoon on rape and sodomy allegations stemming from the 2011 incident.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 30 June 2017
• As part of Boak's plea deal, prosecutors dropped charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and sodomy.
  — Christopher Haxel, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2017
• In Lawrence v. Texas, in 2003, the majority opinion overturned state sodomy laws by rejecting the history presented as evidence in Bowers.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• In a case widely seen as politically motivated, Mr. Anwar was imprisoned on sodomy charges in 1998.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 30 July 2016
• Galen Satoe was acquitted of felony attempted aggravated sodomy.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 3 Aug. 2017
• Anthony Tubolino, 25, faces charges of second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and unlawful transaction with a minor, according to a Kentucky State Police news release.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 15 June 2017
• He is charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy traveling to meet a child for an unlawful act, electronic solicitation of a child, and transmitting obscene material to a minor.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 22 June 2017
• Michael Wysolovski, 31, is accused of false imprisonment, aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children and interference with custody.
  — Chandrika Narayan, CNN, 28 June 2017
• He has been given a court appointed attorney and was charged with aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, interference with custody, and cruelty children-deprivation 1st degree (all of which are felonies), according to Fox News.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 28 June 2017
• Wysolovski has been charged with aggravated sodomy, cruelty to children and deprivation, interference with custody, and false imprisonment, according to Fox5.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2017

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