monogamyin a sentence
- And so I was, like, 'Let's see other people,' and he was, like, 'No,' and I was, like, 'Please,' and he was, like, 'I want to be in a monogamous relationship,' and I was, like, 'I just don't want the weight of this, like, Thing dominating my life,' and he was, like, 'I'm not a thing,' and then we broke up.† (source)
- So I planned a life of monogamy and tried to convert other people, even my seventh-grade science teacher, who was Muslim.† (source)
- As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous.† (source)
- On Luna, we consider monogamy to be nothing more than archaic sentimentality.† (source)
- The Loric are a monogamous people.† (source)
- Annie was what one of her boyfriends, and there were many, always monogamous, always decent, called a doofus.† (source)
- "In combination with strict monogamy and other kosher practices, yes," the Librarian says.† (source)
- Then he dried his tears, grew up, got sober and monogamous.† (source)
- And none of the women had been especially promiscuous; on average, they'd had sexual relations with two different men, consecutively not concurrently, practicing "serial monogamy."† (source)
- But, like so many "black" films of this era, the movie is full of code about dilemmas du jour over race and class, with Martin's down-to-earth, devil-may-care, ghetto scoundrel getting the stamp of black authenticity to highlight how Lynn Whitfield, with her college degrees, corporate status, flawless diction, and foolish desire for monogamous love, has really succeeded only in losing touch with her true black soul.† (source)
- He had been afraid of wounding her all his life and voluntarily stuck to a stultifying discipline of monogamy, and now, after twenty years, he suddenly learned that it had all been superfluous and he had given up scores of women because of a misunderstanding!† (source)
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- While happily married, he is far from monogamous.† (source)
- Her love life had consisted of a string of monogamous but ultimately unhappy relationships—in France, where she had lived until the age of twenty-six, and in Israel, where she had moved with her parents after they concluded that Marseilles was no longer a place for Jews.† (source)
- Wolves are also strict monogamists, and although I do not necessarily consider this an admirable trait, it does make the reputation for unbridled promiscuity which we have bestowed on the wolf somewhat hypocritical.† (source)
- Basically I believe in monogamy.† (source)
- Some humans there are monogamous by instinct, as swans are said to be.† (source)
- Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home. (source)
- Now on his fourth marriage, he jokes about serial monogamy.
- Monogamy is like good crystal - beautiful - but once you get it, all it takes is one chip and it's never the same again. (source)
- But these inflexible monogamists were no hazard.† (source)
- —Unlike the latter species, the bonobo had not been partially monogamous with polygamous and polyandrous tendencies.† (source)
- Nor would it matter if her husband overheard; jealousy is never learned in a race automatically monogamous.† (source)
- The Enemy's demand on humans takes the form of a dilemma; either complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy.† (source)
- Eugene winced, and looked around on all the faces set in a resolve to fight desperately for monogamy, party politics, and the will of the greatest number.† (source)
- There were also monogamy and romance.† (source)
- …even had no word for it in the tongue he knew who had been born and grown up in a padded silken vacuum cell which might have been suspended on a cable a thousand fathoms in the sea, where pigmentation had no more moral value than the silk walls and the scent and the rose-colored candle shades, where the very abstractions which he might have observed—monogamy and fidelity and decorum and gentleness and affection—were as purely rooted in the flesh's offices as the digestive processes.† (source)
- Family, monogamy, romance.† (source)
- Mother, monogamy, romance.† (source)
- You're always talking about 'morals'—meaning monogamy, I suppose.† (source)
- Others even attempted public outrages upon the institution of monogamy.† (source)
- She, a monogamist, regretted the cessation of some of life's innocent odours; he, whose instincts were polygamous, felt morally braced by the change and less liable to the temptations that had assailed him in the past.† (source)
- The females were less numerous than the males, and liable to much furtive persecution in spite of the monogamy the Law enjoined.† (source)
- She doubted the convenience and, as a natural sequent, the sanctity of the monogamous and separate home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life.† (source)
- But—Georgie, I've been thinking of one mild bat—oh, don't worry, old pillar of monogamy; it's highly proper.† (source)
- I'm too monogamous—toward Erik!† (source)
- Among the fish that the Nautilus startled on its way, I'll mention a one–meter lumpfish, blackish on top with orange on the belly and rare among its brethren in that it practices monogamy, a good–sized eelpout, a type of emerald moray whose flavor is excellent, wolffish with big eyes in a head somewhat resembling a canine's, viviparous blennies whose eggs hatch inside their bodies like those of snakes, bloated gobio (or black gudgeon) measuring two decimeters, grenadiers with long…† (source)
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