How to Use nonbinary in a Sentence

nonbinary

adjective
  • Being nonbinary wasn’t a new concept — for Smith or the rest of the world — in 2019.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That, Kimball says, is the last thing the league wants to do for their trans and nonbinary players.
    Outside Online, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Weaver told The Sunday Times in 2023 that her child is nonbinary.
    Emily Blackwood, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The toll is lower than the year before, which saw at least 57 trans and nonbinary people killed.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The number includes more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth in the state.
    Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Now 29, Lundy-Paine came out as nonbinary 10 years ago.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2024
  • The Boston Marathon is not the first race to welcome nonbinary runners.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Her three teenagers, one of whom is nonbinary, attend or went to public school.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Rafaelov dreamed of creating a space where young trans and nonbinary people could get these items with ease.
    Colleen Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • The app later updated the feature so that nonbinary users can make the first move in all pairings.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • One long wall of text lists the names of South Africans who have died at the hands of violence against women and nonbinary people since Mrwetyana’s death.
    Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Somehow 99% of the women and nonbinary people in my life are a delight to purchase gifts for, while the men—cis and trans alike—remain a cipher.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Ghee is nonbinary and Newell is gender-nonconforming, and both of them use the pronouns he, she and they.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 2 May 2023
  • Trans and nonbinary youth have higher rates of attempts, too.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The letter cites the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teen in Oklahoma, who was attacked in a school restroom by classmates and died the next day.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The worker, who is nonbinary, said their pleas to strip club managers to better sanitize stages and VIP rooms had been waved off.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Selby, who is a nonbinary writer in their early 40s, intended to stay there at the time.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • For the first time in the race's 127-year history, the Boston Marathon will include a division for nonbinary runners.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Alex Newell became the first openly nonbinary actor to win a Tony Award for their performance in Shucked and addressed the historic nature of the win.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
  • Women and nonbinary workers, whose clothing choices weren’t a part of the poll, have a different set of rules to follow.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The program, launched last year to mark WIF’s 50th anniversary, is open to women, nonbinary and trans people.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
  • Given that trans and nonbinary people are up to six times more likely to be autistic, his response made no sense.
    Sarah Kurchak, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • Corrin—the nonbinary star who rose to fame for their portrayal of Princess Diana in The Crown—closed the show wearing a camel turtleneck, golden sequined briefs, and tights.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The cost-free coding school enrolls Black and brown women, trans, and nonbinary people to advance their careers in tech.
    Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Acquisitions of work by women and nonbinary artists, and by artists of color, have jumped sharply.
    Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The parents of 18-year-old activist Gibson Iron Eyes, who is nonbinary, accuse Miller of grooming their child.
    Vulture, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Ramirez, like Che, is nonbinary and uses they/them prounouns.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2024
  • Nex was the nonbinary 16-year-old in Oklahoma who died in February one day after a group of students beat them up in a school restroom.
    Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Stause come out, establish boundaries, and fiercely defend her relationship with nonbinary drummer G Flip has been one of the highlights of Selling Sunset.
    Samantha Allen, Them, 9 Sep. 2024
  • According to The Trevor Project, 78% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported being the subject of discrimination due to their gender identity.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024

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