How to Use lesbian in a Sentence

lesbian

1 of 2 adjective
  • Some of it is even lesbian chaos!
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Sunday is the most lesbian day of the week, fight me.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The incident led to the first march for gay and lesbian rights.
    — Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • One is in the closet; the other is out, living her fullest lesbian life.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Finding bar owners from the heyday of lesbian nightlife was tricky, as many have moved away or died.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • On Main Street, there was, like, a gay and lesbian bookshop right next door to the gun shop.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Williams’ anxious callers were gay and lesbian couples who plan to marry.
    — Shelia Poole, ajc, 14 July 2022
  • Her lesbian neighbors, friends, and even an Airbnb host pitched in to give her injections.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Here, the true villain is not Carmilla, the lesbian vampire.
    — Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the years that followed Wanda’s move, many of my aunt’s lesbian friends bought houses on the same shore.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Depictions of the seashore and harbors and boats are of course not limited to lesbian artists.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • There all these think piece about Chessy being a lesbian awakening for a lot of women.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • It's been more than a decade since the military lifted its longstanding ban on gay and lesbian troops.
    — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • One of the first films of its kind, this lesbian gangster heist thriller delivers suspense and humor.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
  • There were a few gay bars, but the CWC was the only place for lesbian activism.
    — Laura Horne, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
  • Instead, gay men got much of their care and solace from valiant nurses, some family, and their gay and lesbian friends.
    — Frederick Isasi, STAT, 23 June 2022
  • In April 2021, an Ohio high school crowned a lesbian couple as prom king and queen.
    — Jay Valle, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Tired of facing obstacles, Ferris, who is lesbian, has been cutting her own hair for the past six years.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Branske and Nunez are also the first lesbian couple to ever win, officials said.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Leeuw also enjoys using her platform as a space to explore the vast array of lesbian fashion.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Pressure for the release of Griner — a star athlete and lesbian woman of color — has been intense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2022
  • All couples and moresomes who are adults are welcome in the Dome – straight, lesbian, gay, bi, polyamorous and monogamous.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Lesbian agitators, such as Good, are its nemeses.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Even Johnson, who's openly lesbian, wanted a piece of Jordan.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • There are also lots of lesbian couples and BFF duos holding hands.
    — Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The thought of a lesbian farmer almost catching avian flu from an emu on her farm that was suspected of having it, put social media on edge once again.
    — Time, 12 Dec. 2022
  • These new businesses are challenging the notion that lesbian bars of the past closed because they were no longer wanted—or needed.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There was a lesbian feminist drop-in rap group, in Santa Monica.
    — Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • They are sold to me by a very nice person wearing a lesbian pride pin who also gives me a free sample of the Rosy Cheeks fresh face mask.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And with an uptick of gay and lesbian people with kids, a family-friendly theme-park atmosphere is appealing.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026

lesbian

2 of 2 noun
  • And no, the teenage lesbians do not die.
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Holt, hired three years ago, came out as a lesbian last year.
    — Nina Shapiro, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The lesbians were quick to adopt the phrase themselves.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
  • There are no jokes about race or religion, and very few about gays and lesbians.
    — David MacK, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • In her last year of college, my daughter abruptly came out as a lesbian.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The women pull out their rifles when Plaza tells them she a lesbian.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Don't bring my big f---ing lesbian name into your mouth and into this drama.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • If the mother was a lesbian and the other mother was present, that was a huge point.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Why do lesbian couples tend to have higher divorce rates than their gay and straight peers?
    — Abby Monteil, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • This is 1985 and no one’s out and nobody’s a lesbian.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There will now be two women leading the state, one of whom, Healey, is a lesbian.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The emphasis here is that no lesbians have to die; that being said, a whole lot of straight men do.
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Being called a lesbian was a uniquely harsh insult.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Below, find a list of movies in a variety of genres where the lesbians stay alive.
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Hmm, what does this do for that fan theory that Regina is a lesbian?
    — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Their split comes nearly two years after Braunwyn came out as a lesbian.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Another big factor was that their daughter came out as a lesbian.
    — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • My mom was a lesbian, at a time in the Midwest when that wasn’t acceptable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • By then, Wuornos identified as a lesbian.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • While Kyle spends the rest of his birthday upset in his bed, the lesbians are going out.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
  • While some of the film’s characters are dead at the start, no lesbians actively die in the film.
    — Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • They were surrounded by lesbians.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And where does Aubrey Plaza’s cop, also a lesbian, fit in the scheme of idiot or not?
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
  • In her last year of college, my now-37-year-old daughter abruptly came out as a lesbian.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • As a young lesbian in the early 2010s, that place was like a royal palace to me.
    — Ella Braidwood, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
  • That ends up not being the case, and everybody refers to each other by normal lesbian terms and acts gay.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2026
  • That was when lesbian couples were just starting to think about having children as out lesbians.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Most gay hotspots felt a little too focused on gay men, and her lesbian and trans peers found themselves in a sort of limbo.
    — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • One of my favorites of last year was The Safekeep about a lesbian romance.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Coffey had the good fortune of meeting a young lesbian at Val’s hours before the raid.
    — Julio Capó, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026

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