How to Use heterosexual in a Sentence
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These are the most heterosexual movies of the season, possibly of the year, maybe even of all time.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
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Drag Race has had a heterosexual male drag queen, and a woman drag queen.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2022
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For so long, many of these TV romances have been heterosexual: Girl meets boy.
—Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 27 June 2022
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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
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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
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But during the last decade, the infection has spread to more heterosexual men and women.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
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Does the female half of a heterosexual couple wear an engagement ring, while the male half doesn’t?
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 2 June 2022
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In heterosexual relationships, the women most of the time, of course.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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But that’s just one obstacle to having the same rights as married heterosexual couples in the country.
—Aditi Sangal, CNN, 4 June 2023
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For one thing, her very white and very heterosexual focus seems markedly narrow in 2022.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
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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
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The memorial also attracted a steady flow of heterosexual teenagers and young adults.
—Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
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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
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This is what Stephenie Meyer thinks is heterosexual love: one predator, one prey.
—Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
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That’s twice the rate of less affluent heterosexual couples.
—Jill Yavorsky, Fortune, 6 June 2023
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This is a film about the strained and ever-shifting tectonic plates of heterosexual relationships, above all else.
—Nadine Smith, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2023
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For heterosexual women, their frustrations and pains have come from men.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2022
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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
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In my mind, white, heterosexual businessmen who shouted stock prices into their phones wore suits.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Would the obligations be different in the case of a heterosexual couple, which society is more accepting of?
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
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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
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He was known for helping heterosexual couples who yearned to become parents.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022
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This makes the series Netflix's first dating show to feature non-heterosexual relationships as a rule.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2022
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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
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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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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
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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
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Most of the people in power—the gatekeepers—are white male heterosexuals.
—Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
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For heterosexuals, however, the outcome of the second and third hypotheses would be the same.
—The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
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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
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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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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
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Underneath the heterosexuals were the tentative notices for young gay men and women.
—Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But the state has seen an uptick in gonorrhea cases among heterosexuals under 25, especially women.
—Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 13 July 2017
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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
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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
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Demonizing immigrants and minimizing the value of anyone who isn't a white, god-fearing heterosexual?
—Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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White, male heterosexuals experience disappointment also.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
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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
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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
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Most of the people in power—the gatekeepers—are white male heterosexuals.
—Bon Appétit, 4 Oct. 2019
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For heterosexuals, however, the outcome of the second and third hypotheses would be the same.
—The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
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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
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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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