How to Use heterosexual in a Sentence

heterosexual

1 of 2 adjective

• These are the most heterosexual movies of the season, possibly of the year, maybe even of all time.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• Drag Race has had a heterosexual male drag queen, and a woman drag queen.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2022
• For so long, many of these TV romances have been heterosexual: Girl meets boy.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 27 June 2022
• The title refers to the fact that Jackson and Sharp, who are gay, play hyper-macho, heterosexual jerks.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• For its first half, Ahn’s film bends over backward to placate to heterosexual viewers and is all the weaker for it.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• But during the last decade, the infection has spread to more heterosexual men and women.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Does the female half of a heterosexual couple wear an engagement ring, while the male half doesn’t?
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 2 June 2022
• In heterosexual relationships, the women most of the time, of course.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
• About 1% of all married, heterosexual parents with children under the age of 15 are stay-at-home dads this year.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
• This season of The Ultimatum includes five heterosexual couples who are at a fork in the road.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
• But that’s just one obstacle to having the same rights as married heterosexual couples in the country.
  — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 4 June 2023
• For one thing, her very white and very heterosexual focus seems markedly narrow in 2022.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
• As part of the research, 256 Australian men (half who are gay, and half who are heterosexual) were asked to help cast a gay man in a campaign promoting the country’s largest city, Sydney.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The memorial also attracted a steady flow of heterosexual teenagers and young adults.
  — Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
• Research shows that the earnings gap between heterosexual spouses doubles between two years before the birth of their first child and one year after.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• This is what Stephenie Meyer thinks is heterosexual love: one predator, one prey.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• That’s twice the rate of less affluent heterosexual couples.
  — Jill Yavorsky, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• This is a film about the strained and ever-shifting tectonic plates of heterosexual relationships, above all else.
  — Nadine Smith, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2023
• For heterosexual women, their frustrations and pains have come from men.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ballroom dancing has long been symbolic of heterosexual norms – a male-female partnership with the male taking the lead -- but that could be changing.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2022
• In my mind, white, heterosexual businessmen who shouted stock prices into their phones wore suits.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
• The virus was ignored by the mainstream press for years except when cases were reported in women, children or heterosexual men.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 June 2022
• Part of the mental load of being a mother in a heterosexual relationship can be having to woman-splain gender roles to her partner and request help.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• And gay men and lesbians are sometimes forced into heterosexual marriages and fear coming out to their families and co-workers.
  — Safak Timur Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Would the obligations be different in the case of a heterosexual couple, which society is more accepting of?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• For people who are cisgender or heterosexual, this is a way to sort of reclaim that identity in a really public way.
  — TIME, 27 Oct. 2023
• He was known for helping heterosexual couples who yearned to become parents.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022
• This makes the series Netflix's first dating show to feature non-heterosexual relationships as a rule.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2022
• The lack of diversity in the romance genre is obvious in the cover art itself, which largely features white and heterosexual couples.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Feb. 2023
• Studies researching humor and romance in heterosexual relationships have found that both men and women view having a sense of humor as an asset.
  — Sonia Weiser, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024

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heterosexual

2 of 2 noun

• The court ruled that the police had been right to do so, and that the right to privacy was reserved for heterosexuals.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
• At the time, shows like Donahue and Oprah showed the vitriol that many heterosexuals aimed at gay people.
  — S. D. Chrismon, The Root, 15 June 2018
• Most of the people in power—the gatekeepers—are white male heterosexuals.
  — Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
• For heterosexuals, however, the outcome of the second and third hypotheses would be the same.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• All his donors were white and had to be married heterosexuals, among other criteria, and the bank would only supply sperm to women who were the same.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
• Also, there is not a single minute of film in which Evan Hansen comes across as heterosexual, which is a problem when the main driver of the plot is Evan’s unrequited love for a girl.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Sep. 2021
• The legislation also discriminates against gay men by setting the age of consent for them at 16 years old, compared with 14 years old for heterosexuals, the group said.
  — Susannah Cullinane and Andreas Preuss, CNN, 24 June 2017
• Underneath the heterosexuals were the tentative notices for young gay men and women.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• At the same time, online dating was veering toward one-night-stands or afternoon hookups through mobile apps like Grindr (for gay men) and Tinder (mostly for heterosexuals).
  — Ann Powers, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2017
• Wilde wrote as a voice from Fullerton’s London years, and Fullerton in Paris had left all that behind to become an enthusiastic heterosexual.
  — Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
• Adding to the sense of unreality is the utter lack, in a book teeming with brothels and game parlors, of any courtesans catering to (or anyone having) preferences other than the heterosexual.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• While Calvin Klein is known for pushing the envelope, people are accusing the brand of queerbaiting, since Bella identifies as heterosexual.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 31 Aug. 2020
• This is apparently one of the few ballet companies populated exclusively by heterosexuals, with the exception of Erik (Shakiem Evans), who seems to be the troupe's token gay man.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• In the post-Edwardian period, upper class men were more likely to already understand the world in terms of heterosexuals and homosexuals, with a bright and absolute line dividing the two.
  — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
• Now the 27-year-old delegate argued against him, never mentioning his name, urging a ban on the practice of trying to convert young gay, lesbian or transgender people into heterosexuals.
  — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But the state has seen an uptick in gonorrhea cases among heterosexuals under 25, especially women.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
• Yet other configurations are certainly possible, given that heterosexuals aren’t the only ones doing the seducing, as well as the heightened gatekeeping demanded of us all these days.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Cut, 10 June 2018
• The story takes places in an alternate reality where heterosexuals are an oppressed minority and follows a girl bullied for being straight, culminating with her suicide.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Demonizing immigrants and minimizing the value of anyone who isn't a white, god-fearing heterosexual?
  — Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
• It was based on a submerged reality, which was that many gay men and especially lesbians had always been in committed relationships — and that that experience was a vital bridge with heterosexuals, who usually comprised the rest of our families.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 June 2017
• The eight new infections, all diagnosed since February, involve individuals described to be heterosexuals, drug users and recently homeless, The Seattle Times reported.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
• Heteropatriarchy — a system of society in which men and heterosexuals (especially heterosexual men) are privileged, dominant and hold power.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• National lawmakers are negotiating a revision of the criminal code, including provisions pushed by Islamic parties that would imprison gay people or unmarried cohabiting heterosexuals.
  — Anita Rachman, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• White, male heterosexuals experience disappointment also.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
• The court ruled that the police had been right to do so, and that the right to privacy was reserved for heterosexuals.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
• At the time, shows like Donahue and Oprah showed the vitriol that many heterosexuals aimed at gay people.
  — S. D. Chrismon, The Root, 15 June 2018
• Most of the people in power—the gatekeepers—are white male heterosexuals.
  — Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
• For heterosexuals, however, the outcome of the second and third hypotheses would be the same.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• All his donors were white and had to be married heterosexuals, among other criteria, and the bank would only supply sperm to women who were the same.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
• Also, there is not a single minute of film in which Evan Hansen comes across as heterosexual, which is a problem when the main driver of the plot is Evan’s unrequited love for a girl.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Sep. 2021

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