How to Use polygamous in a Sentence

polygamous

adjective
  • While some of the splinter groups were once polygamous, many no longer are.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • But not being polygamous, the band had to part ways with Klinghoffer.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Public school with ties to polygamous Kingston group looks to expand.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Utah public school with ties to polygamous sect placed on ‘warning’ status.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Striped skunks are polygamous, with some males having a harem of several females.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Christine was the first of Kody's four wives to leave their polygamous arrangement.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Lawmakers have made clear that the bill does not recognize polygamous unions.
    — Emily Sacia, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • At one extreme, polygamous gorilla males grow to be more than twice as massive as females.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • He was left with an aunt, who was one of five wives in a polygamous family that included about three dozen children.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • Gordon is maybe a prophet, or a militia separatist or a polygamous child abuser.
    — Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The series has followed the polygamous Brown family for more than eight years.
    — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
  • Women were to be monogamous, while men were to be polygamous, Nxivm taught.
    — Nicole Hong, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
  • In the pioneering, even polygamous, past, things looked more hopeful for the state’s women.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Kody Brown is not sure how his family's polygamous approach will survive in the future.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The species in which only the females take on childcare also tend to be species that are polygamous, with the males trying to mate with many females.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Meri was Kody's wife before the pair entered into a polygamous bond with Janelle Brown.
    — Dory Jackson, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Kody Brown is beginning a new chapter after the demise of his polygamous family.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Talmud tells of an aging man in a polygamous society who decides to marry a second, younger wife.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
  • He is still baffled by the polygamous, fickle nature of American sports fandom.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • Floodwaters also killed a dozen people in a polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border that year.
    — Fox News, 13 May 2020
  • That's a weird question because first of all, there have always been people who are polygamous, and there have always been people who were celibate or asexual.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The influence of the polygamous sect has waned significantly over time in the towns where the sect has historically been based.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Skunks are polygamous, and male skunks travel up to 5 miles during mating season looking for love with as many potential mates as possible.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The series chronicles his dad’s polygamous lifestyle in Utah, where Kody has multiple wives.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Among the countries that were surveyed, Kuwait topped the list of polygamous countries with around 8% of married men having multiple wives.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Docents lead tours and answer questions about the polygamous wives who lived here, though most of his 56 wives lived in other accommodations.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
  • Nonprofits have long struggled to provide services in Short Creek, where polygamous families are taught to be wary of outsiders.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
  • From Israel, a drama, set in the polygamous Bedouin culture, that won the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
  • She was born to American parents in Italy, where her father headed a sect of the polygamous Children of God cult.
    — Barbara Spindel, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
  • In polygamous mammals with strong competition for mates, the males generally die earlier than females.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025

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