How to Use monogamy in a Sentence

monogamy

noun
  • Monogamy is common among birds.
  • This one seems to be monogamy, this one is, like, three or four baby mothers.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The first three episodes — on monogamy, the racial wealth gap, and gene editing — are out this week.
    — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 26 May 2018
  • Yes, Aham may truly believe that monogamy is racist.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Sensing monogamy was not his jam, Davis agreed to try swinging.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In monogamy the protective choice is to not sleep with anyone else.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 8 May 2024
  • One couple's version of monogamy doesn't have to match anyone else's.
    — Rachel Raczka, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Kody Brown sees a brighter future for Christine Brown in monogamy.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The idea of life-long or serial monogamy is embedded in most cultures.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • As Samantha Jones was telling all along, not everyone is cut out for monogamy.
    — Nell Beram, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Cassidy also begins to shift, rethinking her stance on monogamy and love.
    — Camille Perri, Marie Claire, 11 June 2018
  • This shows that there are many paths to a peaceful existence, and both monogamy and promiscuity can get you there.
    — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • But Cannon did state previously that monogamy wasn’t for him.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 19 Apr. 2021
  • What has changed about monogamy or family life in the past 27 years to account for the closing gap?
    — Kim Brooks, The Cut, 21 Sep. 2017
  • What has changed about monogamy or family life in the past 27 years to account for the closing gap?
    — Kim Brooks, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The exception is birds — 90 percent of which practice some form of monogamy.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • How tiresome monogamy, married or otherwise, always seemed to her.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • However, the lines are blurred when the couples start to question the concept of monogamy with each other.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Throughout the episode, Mallmann expressed no pretense of monogamy.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Among his converts was a ruler with several wives, whom de Britto convinced to adopt monogamy.
    — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In some seabirds, researchers are finding that sticking blindly to monogamy can be just as wrongheaded.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Two people fall in love, get married and stay exclusive until the end of their lives – that's classic monogamy for you.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Whether that has anything to do with ScarJo's recent comments about monogamy – who knows?
    — Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 8 Mar. 2017
  • All told, experts now think that true monogamy is only found in 7% of species, according to Cooke's book.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
  • Because these two aspects of monogamy are so often enjoined among humans, they are considered two sides of the same coin.
    — Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Today, urban coyotes remain one of the most compelling beacons of strict monogamy in mammals.
    — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The ring, a pink diamond the size of Affleck’s head, would go down in pop-culture monogamy history.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 20 May 2021
  • But even with all that adulting, cooking, monogamy and poetry, the dude still couldn’t promise forever.
    — Nadeen Currie, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The difference between monogamy and openness isn’t that the desire is raging in one and absent in the other.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • But what started to happen was monogamy started to become a fetish, in the same way that open relationships are a fetish for people.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2017

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