How to Use chastity in a Sentence

chastity

noun

• And maybe all that shining and all that chastity were cathartic.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• Those who act against that chastity rule risk losing their standing in the church.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• And if Rhaenyra needed Plan Tea, that means Rhaenyra lied about her chastity (or lack thereof).
  — ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
• Between the goddess and her nymphs, bathing in the sacred grotto, lives the premise of chastity even as the nymphs flirt in their eloquent poses.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• The ropes have three knots that symbolize the priests’ vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Dawn, who has grown up near to a nuclear power plant, is a staunch member of her high school's chastity club.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2022
• That accords with the law of chastity of the faith, which Hawes believes is reasonable to ask students at BYU to follow.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
• Brandan and Mary spent the night together in their shared bed — sleeping top to tail to preserve their chastity.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
• Alden so often plays fun, likable guys, and Phoebe is best known for playing this paragon of chastity on Bridgerton.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• Roberto De Paolis makes his feature debut with the story of a teenage girl about to take a vow of chastity and the boy who catches her eye.
  — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
• Either/Or shares none of the chastity of its predecessor.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Missionaries with the Culture Project travel across the country, speaking to Catholic school, youth and young adult groups about the ideals of chastity, modesty and pure love.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2019
• Will one of the shepherds succeed in seducing a rifle-wielding goddess sworn to chastity?
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
• Marin later took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, becoming a lay worker for the Church.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2020
• Being a good Saint meant keeping the Word of Wisdom, abiding by the law of chastity, honesty, obedience and decency.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• These accessories, also a sign of chastity, adorn Elizabeth’s dress and dangle from her neck.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• Rhaenyra’s chastity is essential in marrying her to a noble house.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
• The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• The seduction of young women in such places would result in a fall from chastity to sin, followed by a life of spinsterhood or, worse, prostitution.
  — Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020
• On this day the priestly promises of chastity, obedience and poverty are renewed before a Bishop.
  — Nadia Cantú, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Harris’ bestselling books on chastity have, for some years, been widely blamed for mainstreaming junk theology in the first place.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
• And yet Mandingo panic cannot fully explain Johnson’s onscreen chastity, because his Blackness in the movies is rarely a given.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• This was hardly the first occasion when a party had locked its politicians in purdah to preserve their chastity from a predatory rival.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• The nuns took vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty — and, some say, an unofficial vow of humility.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020
• Too Hot to Handle is basically a version of Love Island with an element of chastity.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• The emphasis on chastity clearly places burdens on women. ...
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
• Prudentius’ Psychomachia has been called the first pure allegory—a work that gave abstract virtues like chastity and humility and vices like wrath and pride human forms.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• The New York Times's wedding announcements, the ne plus ultra of the genre and once a bastion of happily antiquated chastity, now read more like a gossip magazine.
  — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 18 Feb. 2014
• Misogyny was so endemic that Roman law focused on preserving a woman’s chastity rather than on punishing the perpetrator in the case of rape.
  — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024