fornicate

Example Sentences

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"They’re doing drugs, they’re fornicating, there are syringes. I have two kids. I don’t want to have to navigate stepping over syringes."

From Fox News

At times, guests’ attention wandered to clips of fornicating wild animals that McCartney had chosen rather provocatively to project on the gilded, golden 19th-century opera house walls.

From Washington Times

The crew members, selected partially on the basis of their sex appeal, spent more time fending off seasickness than fornicating.

From The New Yorker

Finally, he traced the brainstem and basal ganglia back to primordial reptiles, theorizing that they controlled our reflexes, as well as our four major instincts: to fight, flee, feed, and fornicate.

From Salon

His friends start book groups and collapse drunkenly into bed, not to fornicate or fall asleep, but to read Cormac McCarthy.

From New York Times