How to Use sexless in a Sentence

sexless

adjective
  • But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
    — Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe a tidy, sexless peck and then a realer, juicier smooch?
    — Susanna Wolff, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • That way everyone who wants to can get their rocks off and not feel left out in the sexless cold.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 5 July 2017
  • Diehards were inflamed that their sexless music was linked to sexy dark romance clips.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • The hat, indeed, is a largely sexless item of clothing, which is fine.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
  • We have been married for 14 years, the last six of which have been sexless and loveless.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2021
  • In the second, sexless, glowing people weep and hug in my timeline.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Boys wore skirts and shorts in baby pink trimmed with ruffles, while women wore sexless, slick vinyl uniforms.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Toward a stage, where a seemingly nude and sexless version of herself is crouched on the ready.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The motel room starts as a place in which the narrator can conduct a steamy but sexless affair with a younger man.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
  • Carpenter, too, somehow seems both sexless and oversexed.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Miranda’s husband, Steve, once a virile nice guy, is now sexless and hard of hearing.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • In short, if your current sexless state was working for you and your husband, then the norm — whatever that is — wouldn't matter.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Day and Rudolph's owners only hire the sexless and socially awkward.
    — EW.com, 12 May 2024
  • Food became a neutral zone, apolitical and sexless, of pure pleasure.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 4 Dec. 2020
  • No artificial colors, no carabiners and dangling straps and sexless sea foam green fleece.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Tarzan story serves as a partial antidote to complaints about sexless superhero movies.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Perhaps footwear manufacturers fear that knots are the genitals of a shoe and, as on a smooth and sexless store mannequin, must not be shown.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
  • By dispensing with sons and lovers, the tribe of sexless females would double its rate of reproduction and so, quite quickly, take over.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • All those big-haired 1980s power ballads, once a guilty pleasure, prove well-suited to the high-gloss camp and sexless raunch of rock opera.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Luke by this point is sexless and undesiring, a politician’s notion of Young Heroism.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Momming, by contrast, seems to prize quietude, conformity, beige eyeshadow and sexless, ill-fitting pants.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But seeing myself as this undateable, sort of sexless person, even if that wasn’t outwardly visible to people, weighed on me.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Before Rose, the only other women at the ranch are a bosomy older cook and a girlish helper, both conveniently sexless.
    — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Lucifer is cast as a classically handsome youth, his nude but sexless body stretched out horizontally, edge to edge across a nearly 2-foot-wide sheet.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And no one is more laide jolie, more sculpted and faultless, more wooden and sexless, than the paradoxical figure who goes by the name of Clavicular.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Their shared enthusiasms are utterly sexless.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
  • With no husband, children or family to ever speak of, this loyal, motherly, sexless husk of a human being posed little threat to white society.
    — Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Indeed, the avatars of time management and fashion games are featureless and sexless, with monochromatic, usually white skin and one or two pixels suggesting a nose.
    — Deirdre Coyle, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • No less than Peter Thiel has called the gleaming center of America’s tech industry a totally sexless place.
    — The Cut, 22 June 2017

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