How to Use chastity in a Sentence

chastity

noun
  • And maybe all that shining and all that chastity were cathartic.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Those who act against that chastity rule risk losing their standing in the church.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Dawn, who has grown up near to a nuclear power plant, is a staunch member of her high school's chastity club.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The ropes have three knots that symbolize the priests’ vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Some do it because they are caged for some reason or another and haven’t figured how to pop their cork while in chastity.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 19 Aug. 2025
  • Rhaenyra’s chastity is essential in marrying her to a noble house.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • For some, chastity devices involve orgasm denial for the duration of the month.
    — Mikelle Street, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Between the goddess and her nymphs, bathing in the sacred grotto, lives the premise of chastity even as the nymphs flirt in their eloquent poses.
    — Claudia Rankine, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Between the goddess and her nymphs, bathing in the sacred grotto, lives the premise of chastity even as the nymphs flirt in their eloquent poses.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Alden so often plays fun, likable guys, and Phoebe is best known for playing this paragon of chastity on Bridgerton.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Will one of the shepherds succeed in seducing a rifle-wielding goddess sworn to chastity?
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
  • And if Rhaenyra needed Plan Tea, that means Rhaenyra lied about her chastity (or lack thereof).
    — ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • Homer approves equally of the man’s satisfactions and the woman’s chastity.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • These accessories, also a sign of chastity, adorn Elizabeth’s dress and dangle from her neck.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Harris’ bestselling books on chastity have, for some years, been widely blamed for mainstreaming junk theology in the first place.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Marin later took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, becoming a lay worker for the Church.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In a nutshell, chastity is the practice of orgasm denial, often through a device like a dedicated cage.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 1 Oct. 2025
  • Roberto De Paolis makes his feature debut with the story of a teenage girl about to take a vow of chastity and the boy who catches her eye.
    — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • This was hardly the first occasion when a party had locked its politicians in purdah to preserve their chastity from a predatory rival.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • On this day the priestly promises of chastity, obedience and poverty are renewed before a Bishop.
    — Nadia Cantú, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The nuns took vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty — and, some say, an unofficial vow of humility.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Youth media had a specific fixation on virginity and chastity just then.
    — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 6 June 2026
  • The seduction of young women in such places would result in a fall from chastity to sin, followed by a life of spinsterhood or, worse, prostitution.
    — Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The series eschews any sort of sexuality, with even Nico’s desires getting toned down to the point of total chastity.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Monasteries of childless women as well as of childless men followed this rule, pledging themselves to chastity as well as poverty and obedience.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • That accords with the law of chastity of the faith, which Hawes believes is reasonable to ask students at BYU to follow.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Augustinians also take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In an era before rape kits, and when victims were regularly cross-examined in court on their chastity and skirt length, Royston decided to fight for justice.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • In an era before rape kits, and when victims were regularly cross-examined in court on their chastity and skirt length, Royston decided to fight for justice.
    — Agnes Chang, ProPublica, 13 June 2011

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