How to Use chaste in a Sentence

chaste

adjective

• But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
  — Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
• The important thing, the priest said, was to remain chaste.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• And not in some chaste, metaphoric, Beauty and the Beast kind of way.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• All in all, though, this is a fairly chaste version of Mr. Koons.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• But there are no nuns, and Jones’s life was anything but chaste, though not by choice.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
• Some light handholding, or maybe a chaste peck on the mouth, are on the table.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 17 June 2020
• As Glaze went in for a chaste kiss on the cheek, Perry turned her head at the last second and landed a kiss on the lips!
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• But one of the hottest, most thrilling scenes is actually rather chaste.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• The Church requires its members to be chaste according to their state in life.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Oct. 2019
• Why must love be chaste to be clean, clean to be elevating?
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• On one of their chaste little dates, Faruk and Mona find themselves on a road through a forest in the failing light of evening.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Dec. 2021
• By contrast, Ziming’s courtship of Mrs Yu is chaste and old-fashioned.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• But rising above all the sexy clutter on my desk is a perfume that’s downright chaste.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 5 July 2017
• Kopechne was one of this group, and the film treats her with great respect and presents her relationship with Ted as chaste and above board.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• There is no reason to treat him like the guardian of a chaste investigation.
  — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2017
• Where one steps back, the other leans forward, maintaining a tense but chaste 60-foot gap.
  — Curbed, 14 Dec. 2022
• Those pure, chaste souls at the Las Vegas sportsbooks have placed their faith in you as favorites this week for the first time in nearly two years.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2022
• In the Middle Ages, it was thought that a drinking vessel often made from the horn of a cow could detect if a woman was chaste.
  — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
• Barrie’s chaste romance with Sylvia will leave younger ones fidgety.
  — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
• This means that a rather chaste air hangs over the film; when Diana and Steve, for example, share a kiss and presumably proceed to the boudoir, the scene fades out pronto.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2017
• These bizarre animals are chaste survivors in a carnal world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
• And this is not to say Single's Inferno was prudish or overly chaste.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
• Van Leeuwenhoek first used his new tool to examine more chaste subjects such as bee stingers, human lice and lake water in the mid-1670s.
  — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 7 June 2017
• While clearly chaste at the start, this is a romance that builds to a slow, sweet, and at times steamily, satisfying end.
  — Usa Today Life Staff, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
• Crystal had given Hefner a sculpture, strangely chaste, of the two of them sitting on a bench, young love courting.
  — Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
• Harry moves his body a little closer to mine and playfully pulls me down alongside him and gives me a chaste kiss on my forehead.
  — The Cut, 3 Sep. 2017
• Billy wins Alice’s trust, and the two become (chaste) companions.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• These chaste messages gave rise to a more offbeat (and unofficial) transmission in the 1980s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2022
• Attendants strip them down to undergarments and leave them alone, but the dance remains chaste: some floorbound nuzzling, a back-to-back lift.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• Long’s addiction was real, say those familiar with his struggle to live a chaste life.
  — Christian Boone, ajc, 26 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024