Definition: 1. Of or relating to or characterized by sexuality. 2. Having or involving sex. 3. Involved in a sexual relationship.
Use 'sexual' in a sentence:
1. Another survey found that 51 percent of women had experienced some form of sexual harassment in their working lives.
2. Consensual sexual contact between two males can be a criminal activity.
3. Women's groups denounced sexual discrimination.
4. Most mammals reach sexual maturity when their growth rates are in recession, while humans experience a growth spurt during adolescence.
5. The book was the authority on sexual perversions.
6. Religious dogmas often include strong sexual taboos and can create in children the impression that sex is sinful.
7. They have complained of sexual harassment.
8. He was indulging his own sexual proclivities.
9. Research on the Nature& Treatment for the Forced Sexual Activity within Marriage.
10. She exudes sexual magnetism.
11. Such a view implies that our bodies and sexual nature are inherently ungodly.
12. Normative sexual behaviour in our society remains heterosexual.
13. By placing characters within a wider cultural context, Marshall attacked racial and sexual stereotypes and paved the way for explorations of race, class and gender in the novels of the 1970's.
14. Mr Black went for the jugular, asking intimate sexual questions.
15. If you have men and women thrown together in inhospitable surroundings, you are going to get some sexual tension.
16. On the basis of data furnished by her informants, Mead concluded that adolescents in Samoa had complete sexual freedom.
17. Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.
18. A person who professes1 a knowledge of sexual matters;
19. The ascospores, on the other hand, are produced by following sexual reproduction.
20. In a latest reanalysis of Gavan's data, nevertheless, zoologist Elizabeth Watts has found that as chimpanzees reach sexual maturity, the growth rate of their limbs accelerates.
21. Men and women alike have been constricted by traditional sexual roles.
22. It was a clear case of sexual discrimination.
23. But her lavatorial sense of humour, fondness for coarse jokes and fascination with other people's sexual behaviour indicated a vicarious rather than a practical interest in sex.
24. Sexual harassment of women workers by their bosses is believed to be widespread.
25. Mr. Black went for the jugular, asking intimate sexual questions.
26. The amendment will force senators to show where they stand on the issue of sexual harassment.
27. He had been engaging in some kind of kinky sexual activity.
28. So as Harold and Erica, the hero and heroine in his story, live through childhood, we hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction.
29. Her interest in him is purely sexual.
30. She embarked on a series of sexual liaisons with society figures.
31. It's common to lose your sexual desire when you have your first child.
32. For a discussion of biology and sexual politics, see chapter 4.
33. The risqué headlines don't necessarily reflect a new sexual libertinism.
34. She still ached for the lost intimacy and sexual contact of marriage.
35. They have a policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
36. They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery.
37. This condition decreases sexual desire and responsiveness.
38. His sexual orientation was a lot more gay than straight.
39. The song is full of sexual innuendo.
40. Sexual detail added piquancy to the story.
41. More and more women professors thought that sexual discrimination did exist in the university.
42. They recounted amusing stories about their first sexual experiences.
43. Sexual attraction is a large part of falling in love.
44. The attack is one of a series of savage sexual assaults on women in the university area.
45. The descriptions of sexual abuse are graphic.
46. He didn't like the degree of sexual explicitness in the film.
47. Girls generally reach sexual maturity two years earlier than boys.
