virgin

Example Sentences

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At midnight on that day, devotees famously sing Las Mañanitas, the traditional birthday song, for the virgin, and set off fireworks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Significantly, Mexico’s virgin has brown skin, a detail not lost on the Indigenous population, today or centuries ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Meanwhile, manufacturers using plastic packaging are still inclined to use cheaper virgin plastic from abroad, and stomach being taxed for it.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

The ocean is a globally shared resource, and stewarding the deep sea may be society’s last chance to protect the remaining virgin Earth.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

She was a virgin and she had the unlikely name of Santa Sofía de la Piedad.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez