How to Use virginity in a Sentence

virginity

noun
  • My friends were losing their virginities and my life was on hold.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 June 2024
  • My virginity is something that has already been talked about way too much.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Losing my virginity was quick and for the most part painless.
    — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Jaime even planned to lose her virginity at prom, which was foiled when her date got sick from drinking too much coffee.
    — Marie Lodi, The Cut, 18 June 2018
  • There is a scene where an older teenage girl loses her virginity, but again, this is not shown on camera.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The boys ran wildly around the playground where Rafi had lost his virginity.
    — Nicole Krauss, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Also there’s so much pressure on young women to act a certain way or get rid of their virginity.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Iris tries to figure out the reason for Ben’s virginity, but can’t.
    — Clare Sestanovich, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • The film turns on Marysia (16) who tries to sell her virginity online.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The show that made a mockery of its lead character’s virginity.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Lisa, Hunter and Mitchell learn that their teenage daughters plan to lose their virginity on prom night.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Wearing a white wedding dress became a sign of wealth and status rather than virginity.
    — Marlise Schoeny, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The film cannily works on two tracks, as its story follows three teenage girls with a plan to lose their virginity on their prom night.
    — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • That was when all that curriculum hit the market, and all of a sudden there was a way to package virginity and sell it.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But despite all the hype, Colton has maintained that his virginity is really not a big deal.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • In the first episode, Chad decides the best way to kick off his freshman year is by telling classmates that he's lost his virginity.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Like losing your virginity and coping with a friend’s suicide (although not all on the same day — or in the same story).
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This was perhaps meant in the folk tradition as a word of gentle caution about the shame of losing virginity.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Hymen surgery and virginity testing have been available in the US for years.
    — Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Kaleb is putting extreme pressure on Jazmine to give up her virginity, but Calvin comes in and rains on their parade.
    — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Aura, the goddess of cold days, once suggested that her beauty and virginity on a par with those of Artemis.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Wilson writes about being a late bloomer who lost her virginity at 35 and had her first orgasm (alone) at age 39.
    — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • As part of the film’s satire of/homage to ’80s teen comedies, Lisa is focused on losing her virginity to the right guy.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Jane was around 13 or 14 when Kelly took her virginity, Julien said.
    — Sonia Moghe, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
  • May is quickly dispossessed of her virginity — the bloody sheet hung in the courtyard for all to see — and quickly becomes pregnant.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • In January, the top court for Punjab province banned the use of virginity tests in rape cases there.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Just as Léa groomed the teen-age Chéri, so this depraved maman taught Bertrand to swim, fed him hearty meals, and took his virginity.
    — Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Blume’s story follows a teenager named Katherine who falls in love with a boy named Michael and loses her virginity to him.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
  • Youth media had a specific fixation on virginity and chastity just then.
    — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 6 June 2026
  • Everyone layers their shirts in a way that suggests virginity and the year 2008.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 25 June 2021

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