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sex

noun as in physical characteristics

noun as in intercourse between animate beings

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Example Sentences

We ended up going to the swag room, where we started to have sex.

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This would be weird if we were just talking about dinnertime, never mind sex.

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We can’t afford a sex therapist now if you were going to suggest that.

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There’s enough room to comfortably quarantine for just about everything but sex really.

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It was the third weekend of August, and an anti-sex trafficking rally was about to fill the streets of Salt Lake City.

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However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.

To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.

Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

This week, Florida became the 36th state to allow same-sex marriage.

Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?

But if you restrict it, to the sense in which it is commonly applied to the angelic sex, I am not prepared to answer.

As public accuser, he caused the death of immense numbers, of all ages and either sex.

That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.

He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sex, such as: sexuality, femininity, manhood, manliness, masculinity, and manhood/womanhood.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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