Sample sentences for CELIBATE - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

abstaining from (i.e., never having) sexual intercourse

or:

an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity

celibate = having taken a religious vow of chastity (to not have sexual relations)

celibacy = abstaining from sexual intercourse

No one wanted to become stepfather to this child, which is why she had chosen to spend her life entirely celibate.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

celibate = never having sexual intercourse

...she'd sort of come to accept celibacy as a permanent way of life.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

celibacy = never having sexual intercourse

celibate = someone who abstains from sexual intercourse

Why do you think priests are celibate?
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
He broke his sacred vow of celibacy!
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
He was a knight of the Kingsguard, sworn to celibacy.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
The person who saved me from celibacy and cirrhosis wasGeorge Winokur.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Trying to explain how good they are to someone who has never had one is like telling a celibate priest about young love.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
Celibacy was a haven, silence a shield.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
As a matter of fact, they were the only celibate rabbits in the—
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
He spoke to Abra of the necessity for abstinence and decided that he would live a life of celibacy.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
One obvious expression of this is the claim that celibacy is "higher" than marriage.
George Orwell -- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
A self-imposed celibacy.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
They preferred themselves to suffer the misery of celibacy, rather than risk the other person.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

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