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But keeping to the setting's standards of virginity and purity, only widow Violet can get away with it.—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026 Ferrer, who played the 16-year-old version of Lively’s character, testified that Baldoni made an inappropriate remark while directing the scene in which her character loses her virginity.—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026 While promoting The Book of Sheen on Impaulsive, host Mike Majlak asked the actor about some of the details in the book, which included drug use, losing his virginity to an escort at 15 years old, and having slept with 47,000 women by his count.—Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026 The history of side-saddle, for example, comes from the fear that riding astride risks breaking a woman’s hymen, compromising the evidence of her virginity and, therefore, her value.—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for virginity