How to Use sexuality in a Sentence

sexuality

noun
  • She is comfortable with her sexuality.
  • Julia Fox is ready to open up to the public about her sexuality.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 9 July 2024
  • The film captures how much Michael was tormented by the drive to hide his sexuality.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • Some of it was about my sexuality, my gender, my class.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The film starts with him as a young kid, becoming aware of his sexuality at a time when Stonewall is happening.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Was the bohemian, very open sexuality of everybody in the movie all saved for the camera?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The film tackles the R&B icon’s rich career as well as his battles with his sexuality and overeating.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The film drips with sweat — as much from the sexuality radiating off its three central characters as from the heat of the sun over the Mexican desert.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The main characters struggle with their sexuality and questions of right and wrong while trying to get through high school.
    Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • In the new film, there are many lessons for older tweens and teens around gender roles, history, sexuality, and even the positive impacts that the arts can have.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Many trans-health providers have also honed their skills in speaking frankly about sexuality.
    Rachel E. Gross, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Max seems to run from himself in ways beyond his sexuality too.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
  • While the drama centers around Jackie’s romance with Kristin Stewart’s Lou, the movie is about so much more than their sexuality.
    Pam Moore, C.p.t., SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Since the podcast launched in late March, Noles and Swarts have weighed in on infidelity, dating after the death of a spouse, polyamory, talking to your kids about their sexuality and more.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Dana Atkinson, a strings technician, talked about coming to terms with his sexuality as a young man.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But the Netflix movie shows Black power brokers used his sexuality as a wedge between him and King in an attempt to control them both.
    Diane Garrett, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, many credit the film’s depiction of men in drag (along with murder, gambling, and open sexuality) with helping weaken the Hays Code once and for all.
    Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 17 June 2024
  • Lee both is Burroughs and yet not Burroughs, but the two overlap, notably in the expression of their sexuality.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
  • What’s more, their sexuality never seemed to be the main topic of discussion.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Looking back on a lot of my life in terms of relationships, sexuality and my sense of self in the world, there is a lot of shame associated with that.
    Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The film follows Lil Nas X on his first big tour, offering a mix of performance footage and interviews in which the artist talks about things like his fast rise to fame and sexuality.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • At the time, Tyson stated the memes stemmed from their struggles with their own sexuality, having come out as bisexual in 2020.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Even though she's kept her dating life pretty private, Hough has been open about her sexuality.
    Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • If Imogen is attracted to girls has yet to be confirmed, but the sweet moment suggested her own sexuality may not be black and white.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The result is more than the sum of its parts, a funny, self-aware exploitation flick that doubles as an exploration of beauty, sexuality, and self-worth.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 23 May 2024
  • But questions surrounding his tragic passing in a plane crash, and his sexuality, refuse to die down.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Her frankness about her shifts in sexuality and issues with mental health, which seemed so unusual at the time, are much more common among younger artists.
    Robert Levine, Billboard, 27 July 2023
  • The censorship in Iran is not just about the hijab or anything relating to sexuality.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • Through Shelley, Coppola and Gersten make an argument that seems to need to be reiterated time and again — work centered on sexuality and women and desire is as worthy of artistic appraisal and appreciation as anything else.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024

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