celibate

in a sentence

Now I knew about celibacy.  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, 1988

I am a celibate, madam.  (source) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1905

But what could you expect, he'd say, from an institution run by celibate men who wore dresses.†  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

A vow of celibacy and the relinquishment of all personal assets hardly seemed a sacrifice.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Do you know how the Papists teach their celibates to master their desire?†  (source) Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders, 2001

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) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

What, me, celibate?†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding.†  (source) Jack London, Sea Wolf, 1904

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) Colleen Hoover, Hopeless, 2013

You're celibate, but you want to change that.†  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

Each of these groping celibates supplied at any rate a want of which the other was impatiently conscious.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

It's not like you've been languishing in celibacy.†  (source) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011