Sample Sentences for
celibate
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    I am a celibate, madam.  (source)
    celibate = someone who abstains from sexual intercourse
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    ...she'd sort of come to accept celibacy as a permanent way of life.  (source)
    celibacy = never having sexual intercourse
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    But what could you expect, he'd say, from an institution run by celibate men who wore dresses.†  (source)
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    Celibacy or a huge fat neck, that is the stark choice.†  (source)
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    You're celibate, but you want to change that.†  (source)
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    Each of these groping celibates supplied at any rate a want of which the other was impatiently conscious.†  (source)
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    The old ones they send off to the Colonies right away, but the young fertile ones they try to convert, and when they succeed we all come here to watch them go through the ceremony, renounce their celibacy, sacrifice it to the common good.†  (source)
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    Not celibate or herma-phroditic or undeveloped —sexless.†  (source)
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    Do you know how the Papists teach their celibates to master their desire?†  (source)
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    Six doesn't have the best track record for celibacy, and apparently some of the guys I've made out with don't have the best track record for secrecy.†  (source)
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    It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.†  (source)
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    They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding.†  (source)
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    This latter step, however, there was no present prospect that Arthur Dimmesdale would be prevailed upon to take; he rejected all suggestions of the kind, as if priestly celibacy were one of his articles of Church discipline.†  (source)
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