How to Use hypersexual in a Sentence

hypersexual

adjective
  • As part of that effort, the fungus also makes cicadas hypersexual.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 6 June 2024
  • Most of the victims were accused, often wrongly, of major crimes such as rape or murder, leaning on tropes that blacks were hypersexual and vicious.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020
  • Confused by her squad’s hypersexual dancing, the alien enemies are destroyed.
    — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Out of her foursome of friends, Angie might be defined as the hypersexual friend with a rotating door of escapades to keep her occupied.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Early in her career, Kim was the subject of critiques for her hypersexual and explicit lyrics as well as her provocative fashion sense.
    — Iman N. Milner, refinery29.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Black women, on the other hand, and other women of color, are depicted as difficult to be with, feisty, loud, and hypersexual.
    — Brianna Holt, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Critics, both professionally and on social media, have zeroed in on the hypersexual content of the show.
    — Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 30 June 2023
  • Add to this pornographic films, which have done more not only to objectify women, but also to give men who view them the idea that women are hypersexual and welcome their advances.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • In real life, bisexual people face stereotypes of being greedy and hypersexual.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Can this industry, and the men who control it, really only imagine men as angry, violent, hypersexual killers?
    — Deirdre Coyle, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • She was modeled after Bild Lilli, a risque doll and an adult gag gift based on a racy hypersexual German comic book character.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 9 July 2023
  • For instance, mice that tended to be aggressive or hypersexual before sleep deprivation were more so with sleep deprivation.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Her inevitable transformation into an abrasive, hypersexual, rebellious loner (with fur and fangs) is of course a metaphor for the horrors of adolescence.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And Black adults could be infantilized in the same breath as Black children, especially girls, were denied their youth, seen as predatory and hypersexual.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The performances would stereotype black men and women as ignorant, hypersexual, superstitious, lazy people who were prone to thievery and cowardice.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
  • The performances would stereotype black men and women as ignorant, hypersexual, superstitious, lazy people who were prone to thievery and cowardice.
    — Jesse J. Holland, The Seattle Times, 6 Feb. 2019
  • These displays depicted black people as lazy, ignorant, cowardly or hypersexual.
    — Faith Karimi and Doug Criss, CNN, 20 Sep. 2019
  • To be sure, there is a long and inglorious history of false cross-racial accusations that led to lynching as well as enduring racist stereotypes about black men as innately violent and hypersexual.
    — Treva B. Lindsey, Vox, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The study highlights recent findings including how infection leads to hypersexual behavior.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Dana was also on the lookout for cicadas hosting an unusual fungus — one that leads to their butts falling off, doses them with a psychedelic-amphetamine cocktail and turns the males hypersexual.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
  • The hypersexual depictions of Asian women conceal the exploitation that shapes the many forms of Asian women’s labor in the United States and abroad.
    — Genevieve Clutario, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The perceptions of Asian and Asian American women as submissive, hypersexual and exotic can be traced back centuries.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The perceptions of Asian and Asian American women as submissive, hypersexual and exotic can be traced back centuries.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Through Laura’s protective eyes, this striver who has gotten her claws into Daniel is conniving, hypersexual, possibly a thief, definitely a liar.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Hyperbolic and hypersexual, lesbian pulp novels could famously be identified by their suggestive titles and salacious, punishing taglines.
    — Trish Bendix august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In intimate relationships, Johnson says, the perception of a bisexual partner as hypersexual can fuel jealousy.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Asian men have historically been portrayed as emasculated, undesirable nerds, and Asian women have been stereotyped as exotic, hypersexual creatures.
    — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Harmful negative and racist tropes of Black men as hypersexual, overly aggressive, and intellectually inferior are commonly seen in film and television.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Someone addicted to internet pornography might only get diagnosed with hypersexual disorder.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Prince, however, approached his hypersexual image slightly differently.
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026

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