Sample Sentences for
chaste
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chaste as in:  remained chaste

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    Jacob remained chaste until he met his future spouse.
    chaste = a virgin
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    It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.  (source)
    chaste = without sexual intercourse
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    Saeed had once more asked her to move in with him and his family, telling her that he could explain things to his parents, and she could have his room, and he would sleep in the sitting room, and they would not have to marry, they would only, out of respect for his parents, have to remain chaste in the house, and it would be safer for her, for this was no time for anyone to be alone.  (source)
    chaste = sexually inactive
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    My parents divorced when I was twelve, and I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid.  (source)
    chaste = not involving sexual desire
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    Davis drove me home, walked me to the door, and kissed me chastely on my sweaty lips.  (source)
    chastely = in a non-sexual manner
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    Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother, dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.  (source)
    unchaste = sexually active outside of marriage
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchaste means not and reverses the meaning of chaste. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In spite of the corrupt physical ways our passion had begun to take, the photographs of Yvette that I preferred were the chastest.†  (source)
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    Our tongues met and we kissed with a formal, comical chasteness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    You do not scruple to make a libertine of that noble man; you call him a sensualist as coolly as if you were speaking the truth, and yet it would not be possible to find a chaster man.†  (source)
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    I kept imagining the three of them, one to a room, the lights unchastely left on.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchastely means not and reverses the meaning of chastely. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Even back when I did the groupie thing, I'd always escort the girl du jour out of my hotel room or limo or whatever, give her a chaste kiss on the cheek and a "Thanks, that was a lot of fun," or something with a similar note of finality in it.  (source)
    chaste = not involving sexual desire
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    Any small purchase he allowed himself would be tied in ribbons and laid chastely on the grave.†  (source)
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    Oh sister of Aaron; your father was not unrighteous nor was your mother unchaste.†  (source)
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"It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel," he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.  (source)
chaste = having an unornamented simple style
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