Examples of oversexed in a Sentence
a movie about oversexed college students
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On the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo’s cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Edward’s younger brother Robert (Lukas Gage) spends his days doing little but pining most inappropriately for the attentions of eldest sibling Jack (Jamie Bell), while the stunted, oversexed energy of lone sister Anna (Riley Keough) spits in all directions.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
And Matt Bromley, the oversexed and undershamed executive of Pose.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
There’s something about this oversexed, dead-eyed chaos agent of a narrative persona working through the most toxic relationships that compels me endlessly.
—Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Elvis balked about recording the oversexed song.
—Kim Willis, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Carpenter, too, somehow seems both sexless and oversexed.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
In the film, Earth’s rocky next-door neighbor is in a bit of a crisis: After a literal battle of the sexes, Martian men are dying out, leaving the domineering and oversexed Martian women in a terrible state.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Angela is a bad mother who is oversexed and spoiled by her new husband.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Edward’s younger brother Robert (Lukas Gage) spends his days doing little but pining most inappropriately for the attentions of eldest sibling Jack (Jamie Bell), while the stunted, oversexed energy of lone sister Anna (Riley Keough) spits in all directions.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
And Matt Bromley, the oversexed and undershamed executive of Pose.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
There’s something about this oversexed, dead-eyed chaos agent of a narrative persona working through the most toxic relationships that compels me endlessly.
—Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Elvis balked about recording the oversexed song.
—Kim Willis, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Carpenter, too, somehow seems both sexless and oversexed.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
In the film, Earth’s rocky next-door neighbor is in a bit of a crisis: After a literal battle of the sexes, Martian men are dying out, leaving the domineering and oversexed Martian women in a terrible state.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Angela is a bad mother who is oversexed and spoiled by her new husband.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Oversexed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oversexed. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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