How to Use asexual in a Sentence

asexual

adjective
  • They had a completely asexual relationship.
  • Plus, plenty of people have low desire, and not all of them are asexual.
    — Angela Chen, The Atlantic, 24 July 2021
  • Some are asexual and multiply by spreading their spores far and wide.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • This was an unfathomable moment for me, as a young, not openly asexual woman.
    — Allie Daisy King, refinery29.com, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Once fully grown, the medusae spawn a colony and repeat the asexual reproduction process.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Read on to learn which animals have mastered the art of asexual reproduction.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • An asexual American lizard is a hybrid of two related species.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2010
  • Still, there's plenty that scientists don't know about asexual animals.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Research suggests that up to 1% of the population is asexual.
    — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 5 Sep. 2024
  • My husband has come to identify as asexual, an important place on his journey of self-knowing and discovery.
    — Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In the past decade, scientists have identified asexual reproduction in a number of new species.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Blount’s familial support is still a rarity for asexual people.
    — Courtney Lane, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
  • Hull faces 15 counts of possession of child asexual abuse material.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • Division can also be used to produce new plants via asexual propagation or to limit the size of an expanding stand.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That's a weird question because first of all, there have always been people who are polygamous, and there have always been people who were celibate or asexual.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Whether a relationship with someone who is asexual will work or not for a particular couple is deeply personal.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • There are tons of resources available to graysexual people and those in the asexual community.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Understanding his identity and breaking through the idea of Warhol as an asexual robot was my passion for telling this story.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Others lamented the lack of categories for people with intersex traits or who are asexual or pansexual.
    — Mike Schneider, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Beginning in her 20s, Hilton had started to think of herself, privately, as asexual.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Isaac didn’t formally come out as asexual as the season ended, but his new book seemed to signify a better understanding of his own identity.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Each one contained a line specifying that someone who identifies as asexual should not be given the diagnosis.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Each one contained a line specifying that someone who identifies as asexual should not be given the diagnosis.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • This means that someone who is aromantic might not identify as asexual, and someone who is asexual might not identify as aromantic.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But that is not the case, and the aquarium is now suggesting parthenogenesis as the reason for her pregnancy, or a form of asexual reproduction.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • To editors of the time, the most marketable image of Dickinson the poet was that of the eccentric, reclusive, asexual woman in white.
    — Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Purple is for the entire asexual community, and white is for sexuality.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 June 2026
  • The figure that emerges is not the vaguely asexual character Pessoa has long been thought to be, but quite clearly a gay man who never felt free to live out his desires, except in writing.
    — Damion Searls, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Instead, scientists are growing the fungus using asexual reproduction — not unlike planting a cutting from a flower to clone it, rather than a seed.
    — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Parthenogenesis is a rare form of asexual reproduction in which a female produces an embryo without fertilization by a male’s sperm.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024

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