How to Use celibacy in a Sentence

celibacy

noun

• The show filmed in the middle of Emanuel’s year of celibacy.
  — As Told To Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2023
• That's when Jen surprised Rishi with news of her celibacy change of heart.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2023
• In my case, celibacy gives me a chance to explore being on my own.
  — Tessa Miller, The Cut, 28 Feb. 2018
• But the biggest change was the easing of the celibacy requirement.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
• The Catholic Church has required celibacy from its priests for centuries.
  — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2019
• Back then, the supreme court had even said that the deity had the right to keep its vow of celibacy under right to privacy.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 6 June 2019
• But by the 16th century celibacy was the rule throughout the Roman Catholic Church.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• Pope Francis said the Catholic Church's thousand-year-old practice of celibacy could be changed.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• And yet, for Sipe, the condition that fostered the abuse of minors, celibacy, remains in place.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2017
• Like many on Side B, he’s since been called both a sinner for being gay and a self-hater for choosing celibacy.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• Crawford doesn’t think there was anything so dramatic as a vow of celibacy, but the effect was much the same.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Will this heartbreak inspire Brad Pitt to renew his vow of celibacy?
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 14 June 2018
• The flouting of celibacy vows among African clergy is no secret to the Vatican.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
• For example, perhaps the requirement of the celibacy of priests will fall.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2020
• Release from the obligation of celibacy, which binds most priests and all bishops in the Catholic Church, is a separate step.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
• Chastity, Sister Kate says, is not to be confused with celibacy.
  — Corrine Ciani, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2021
• Technically, as a man of the Catholic church, Wolsey should not have a wife or children in adherence to celibacy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Pope Francis says Church's thousand-year practice of celibacy may be changed.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• That cannot happen with the continuance of the mandatory vow of celibacy.
  — WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Indeed, the church has tried to keep such children secret for centuries, because of the scandal of priests breaking their vows of celibacy.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• Other times, it's assumed to be a choice, like abstinence or celibacy.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the original myth, Medusa is a human woman who takes a vow of celibacy out of devotion to Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
• Francis has made clear that the ideal of priestly celibacy will remain, but if it can be set aside in one region, that sets a precedent.
  — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• In the book, Sarah argued that lifting the celibacy requirement would not help such areas and instead would deprive them of true priests.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
• The brothers take vows of celibacy, poverty and obedience to the gospel way of life that values simplicity, justice and care for the earth.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, Earl Nurse, and Alima Williams, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
• The great irony is that these men and women are living out exactly what the church asks of LGBT people -- chastity and celibacy -- and they are not allowed to talk about it.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 July 2017
• Later, his route to self-acceptance came through celibacy.
  — Hugh Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• There is nothing wrong with choosing celibacy or living a celibate life.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Feb. 2020
• And indeed, according to studies, celibacy is on the rise among a Gen Z frustrated with hookup culture and in response to the cultural sea changes around consent.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
• In fact, choosing a life of celibacy was considered a higher spiritual calling, for single women as well as for men.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024