How to Use homoerotic in a Sentence

homoerotic

adjective
  • To read a book that was so candid about homoerotic love played a big part.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The young man is intrigued by Dorothy’s library full of plays and homoerotic art.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Rob and Fab were pretty boys who played up their homoerotic allure.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The homoerotic bond between these best frenemies is one fans still can't quit.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 12 June 2020
  • Mapplethorpe put a pulpy homoerotic stamp on the formal beauty of the male nude.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • And the homoerotic ballad of Campbell and Cole doesn’t toe that line so much as jump rope with it.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 5 June 2026
  • Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well.
    — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Every time two cowboys point their guns at one another on screen, there’s something homoerotic at play.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • The other major change is that all the coy homoerotic subtext of their relationship is now overtly text.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2024
  • Are our favorite over-50 hunks going to fall in love and make real the homoerotic tension that has been plaguing them for decades?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
  • In Finland, the Finnish artist known for his homoerotic art is a household name, so the film played to a wider audience.
    — NBC News, 16 May 2018
  • Five acres of lush gardens feature walking paths, fountains, and homoerotic sculptures.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Others writhe or sprawl, contributing to a sort of carnal junk yard, though with the homoerotic garnish of one good-looking young man in the background.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • All the while, fascism encroaches on the promiscuous, homoerotic fun of the club.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The novel is saturated with the homoerotic, too mesmerized by the cohorts of the brave to be sorry.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Whatever homoerotic subtext there was in the original is now fully text.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Some people, including David, have called it homoerotic.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The editors had expunged key passages of the novella, whose homoerotic decadence risked the censors.
    — Jane Kamensky, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Noticeably, the homoerotic scene unfolds without much dialogue, which was part of Grandage’s plan for the film.
    — Louis Staples, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2022
  • While not quite homoerotic, the bond between Benny and Johnny is stronger than family.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Mike Pence has a different view of how foreign affairs works — a simpler, more rugged view, with distinct homoerotic overtones.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The two of them bond fiercely and spend all their waking hours giddily parsing their environment for homoerotic subtext.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2024
  • The author’s Twitter presence is a post-post-post-ironic blend of jokey homoerotic photos of bodybuilders and boorish far-right memes.
    — Ian Allen, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Some have suggested that the Bard had romantic liaisons with men, in part implied by sonnets that are charged with homoerotic elements.
    — Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • But a sharp political punch came in the implication of official sanction for the the work’s homoerotic overtones.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Wilde’s writings may be homoerotic, but the prose remains coded and demure; prurience was reserved for the bedroom, and eventually for the courtroom.
    — Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Caravaggio was gay, and homoerotic art was often part of the Old Master vocabulary.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Much of the subsequent work Tress made was similarly theatrical but tended to involve homoerotic scenes.
    — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • In a relationship heavy with homoerotic overtones, David seeks to seduce Walter into seeing things his way.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
  • Set in Djibouti, the film explores the repression of homoerotic desire among a troop of French Legionnaires.
    — Christian Vasquez, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020

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