How to Use hetero in a Sentence

hetero

noun
  • There is a married hetero couple, and the woman came to my class a couple of months ago.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 July 2024
  • Now that sexism is in again, its default to the hetero male gaze is unmistakable.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In the flirtation stage of a relationship, two men think the same way as a hetero couple.
    — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • Could there be another perspective for you besides the perspective of a white, hetero male?
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 July 2022
  • That means that in hetero relationships, there are a lot of times when women carry your emotional burdens as well as their own.
    — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 11 May 2018
  • And gay men are 50 percent more likely to report a cancer diagnosis than their hetero peers.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
  • Also, this writing has been a decidedly cis hetero male perspective.
    — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Many of his pictures, including some of his greatest, are, to put it bluntly, swoony hymns to hetero-normativity.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Love is love is love—although Shakespeare’s plot does continue to require a certain amount of hetero panic about cross-dressing.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In cis hetero relationships, many women are unable to negotiate details such as use of a condom or whether to get pregnant.
    — Tlaleng Mofokeng, Teen Vogue, 14 Sep. 2018
  • This salon employs hetereo/non-hetero individuals and this just truly sucks.
    — Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the lab, however, the researchers can explore the cryptic resistance, called hetero-resistance.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In a hetero relationship, whose responsibility is it to get dinner on the table?
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 29 Sep. 2022
  • On average, the bimaternal mice were 20 percent lighter than their hetero-parental counterparts.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Both are devoted to the same hetero fairy tale; whether the wedding is happening in the temple or on national television is irrelevant.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The mainstream representation of hetero intimacy always depicts a woman who is smaller than a man.
    — Laura Roscioli, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
  • People from marginalized communities are exposed to far more harms, far more often, than people who enjoy the default protections of being cis, white, and hetero.
    — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 4 June 2020
  • These were feverish vision boards of hetero-normative matrimony, sultry brides in egg-white gowns and elaborate jewels posing in cavernous spaces.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
  • While the story detailed a regular instance of hetero dating, ordinary enough for thousands to make theirs, Roupenian’s home as a writer is horror.
    — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Men on the other hand generally speaking are (hetero-normatively) encouraged to look neat and groomed without indulging too far into vanity.
    — Sable Yong, Allure, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Lesbian women reported grooming slightly more than hetero or bisexual women, and bisexual men were most likely to go hairless.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 27 June 2019
  • Explicit misogynist sentiments have returned to the mainstream in full force, and so naturally, the heteros have remained pessimistic as ever about their condition.
    — James Factora, Them., 15 Aug. 2025
  • This attitude is familiar from Big Brother, but the magazine also featured hetero-friendly helpings of naked women.
    — Ed Halter, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
  • One New York Post article pegged to the public kerfuffle cited a study suggesting gay women made more money then their hetero counterparts.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The whole plot is defensive about the hetero nuclear family; Marty has to make sure his parents get back together, and his plan involves making his dad more masculine and violent.
    — Theater Review Aug. 3, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2023
  • People who are interested in taking advantage of other people in hetero partnerships are getting better at keeping the entitlement and the abuse under cover.
    — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Their options were limited, unwelcoming, and decidedly hetero.
    — E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Goethe with an Italian girl (still unknown); Byron (surprisingly, given his earlier hetero history) with a beautiful Greek boy.
    — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
  • The sissy occupied a place between masculinity and femininity and almost always existed in service of the surrounding straight characters as well as the predominately hetero audience, for whom the sissy was a reliable source of humor.
    — Rich Juzwiak, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But these sub-populations in hetero-resistant bacteria appear genetically identical to their susceptible counterparts.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2018

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