How to Use libertine in a Sentence

libertine

noun
  • The libertines will be- gin the film in suits.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The libertines will begin the film in suits.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The four libertines are fascists engaged in a last orgy of terror as the country slides from their control.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The protagonist of A Love Story is a lover boy, a libertine, a gossip, a flirt.
    — The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
  • What Pasolini wants is to turn this decaying palazzo into the Château de Silling, the house in which Sade’s libertines conduct their atrocious experiments.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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