How to Use lesbian in a Sentence

lesbian

1 of 2 adjective

• The incident led to the first march for gay and lesbian rights.
  — Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 20 June 2023
• On Main Street, there was, like, a gay and lesbian bookshop right next door to the gun shop.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• The word ‘lesbian’ wasn’t even a part of the vocabulary.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• In April 2021, an Ohio high school crowned a lesbian couple as prom king and queen.
  — Jay Valle, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Beverly Shaw was the artist on this, and it’s where Midge takes Suzy to the Trapdoor, a lesbian bar.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• One is in the closet; the other is out, living her fullest lesbian life.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021
• Her erstwhile lover Monique Buffet talks of women being in awe of Highsmith in the lesbian bars of Paris.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
• Drive-Away Dolls, perhaps the first in the lesbian B-movie series, parks in theaters September 22.
  — Vulture, 23 June 2023
• O'Donnell famously came out in 2002, after playing a lesbian mom on an episode of Will & Grace.
  — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• It's been more than a decade since the military lifted its longstanding ban on gay and lesbian troops.
  — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Pressure for the release of Griner — a star athlete and lesbian woman of color — has been intense.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2022
• Instead, gay men got much of their care and solace from valiant nurses, some family, and their gay and lesbian friends.
  — Frederick Isasi, STAT, 23 June 2022
• Tired of facing obstacles, Ferris, who is lesbian, has been cutting her own hair for the past six years.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• In 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that a Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia could turn away gay and lesbian couples as clients.
  — Megan Smith, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• Williams’ anxious callers were gay and lesbian couples who plan to marry.
  — Shelia Poole, ajc, 14 July 2022
• There are also lots of lesbian couples and BFF duos holding hands.
  — Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
• Both were grist for reactionaries who wanted a source of outrage besides the lesbian kiss in the Toy Story spinoff Lightyear.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022
• Games like Blizzard and Apex Legends have revealed many of their characters are gay or lesbian or in Apex’s case, trans.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The result is a century-spanning memoir-meets-archive of lesbian life in New York City.
  — Keely Weiss, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 June 2023
• That was when lesbian couples were just starting to think about having children as out lesbians.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• But the woman behind the series, a Finnish-Swedish lesbian artist and ardent pacifist, who lived with her partner for half the year on an island, is far less well known.
  — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• This one is a universe-spanning genre pastiche in which a nihilistic lesbian fashions lethal weapons out of a pair of dildos.
  — Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
• Along the way, she’s established herself as one of the first openly lesbian pop stars — though her music surpasses genre.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• And in 1955, the first lesbian rights organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, began.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• The thought of a lesbian farmer almost catching avian flu from an emu on her farm that was suspected of having it, put social media on edge once again.
  — Time, 12 Dec. 2022
• Latter-day Saints can go ahead and bake a wedding cake and sell it to a gay or lesbian couple without reservation or reproach.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• Leeuw also enjoys using her platform as a space to explore the vast array of lesbian fashion.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• Even Johnson, who's openly lesbian, wanted a piece of Jordan.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
• Foster plays out lesbian Bonnie Stoll, the real-life friend and coach of the title character, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad.
  — Brooke Sopelsa, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Pat has even been able, unbeknownst to Angie, to help out two other members of their small local lesbian community with a starter loan for their now-thriving florist shop.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024

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lesbian

2 of 2 noun

• Holt, hired three years ago, came out as a lesbian last year.
  — Nina Shapiro, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2022
• As a young lesbian in the early 2010s, that place was like a royal palace to me.
  — Ella Braidwood, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
• Alsop, like Tár, is a lesbian with a partner and a child.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The group’s goal was simple: preserve the stories of lesbians over 70 in their own words.
  — Ellie Rudy, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• There will now be two women leading the state, one of whom, Healey, is a lesbian.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• According to the Inn’s website, a lesbian in handcuffs was hit in the head with a club.
  — Lola Méndez, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2023
• My mom was a lesbian, at a time in the Midwest when that wasn’t acceptable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• The record company was founded in 1973 and was owned and run by lesbians.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The word lesbian derives from name of the Greek island of Lesbos, which was home to poet Sappho.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
• It’s all well and good for Korg to be portrayed as a gay man and for Valkyrie to be depicted as a Black lesbian.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
• Hmm, what does this do for that fan theory that Regina is a lesbian?
  — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
• Pratt came out as a lesbian in North Carolina in 1975 and lost custody of her two sons as a result.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 3 July 2023
• One of the women is a lesbian raised in a religious family.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021
• Butler will become the first out Black lesbian to join Congress.
  — CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
• Elected to the Assembly in 2010, Atkins rose to speaker, becoming the first lesbian to do so.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• Their split comes nearly two years after Braunwyn came out as a lesbian.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• Some people are convinced Jackie is a lesbian and was in love with Shauna.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• On the other hand, Walsh, who was also a lesbian, did not keep up with such feminine niceties as shaving her legs.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• His lesbian best friend Dara (Brianne Tju) has his back through the whole ordeal, even when Caleb all but forgets about her to focus on his new crush.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2022
• The freedom of being an out lesbian grants her a new audience that includes both new fans and new dating prospects.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• Leila’s a lesbian and one of her brothers (there are seven) is her twin in their mother’s displeasure.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
• Their split was announced nearly two years after Windham-Burke came out as a lesbian.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• The character is a lesbian, although Margulies is straight.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Their split was announced nearly two years after Braunwyn came out as a lesbian.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
• Another big factor was that their daughter came out as a lesbian.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2021
• That was when lesbian couples were just starting to think about having children as out lesbians.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• Larry, a Marine with no love of the military, and Opal, a lesbian forced by Rabby to wear a frilly party dress that drives her to distraction.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Well-paid or not, Griner’s decision to play in Russia this year has landed the 31-year-old, who is Black and lesbian, in a precarious spot.
  — Jared Council, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Nyad, who is an out lesbian, has written four books, including a 2016 memoir titled Find a Way that detailed her reasoning for unretiring to have a fifth try at the odyssey.
  — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
• As if that wasn’t inclusive enough, Rachel’s sister was a pregnant lesbian, married to another lesbian, who had one child already.
  — Haley Strack, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024