Examples of celibate in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
This — along with the unusual premise of celibate ascetics taking on the challenge of worldly romance — has given the Buddhist version its own viral fame, which the foundation hoped to maximize by opening it to the press.
—
Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
An all-male, celibate hierarchy is making the rules, and there’s this chasm between what Catholics believe in practice and what the church is teaching.
—USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
This will require you to practice vulnerability by vocalizing your decision to be celibate.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
The town was in decline as a center of the wool trade but alive with the mayhem of some fifteen hundred young men—loosely supervised, theoretically celibate, armed with crossbows—the scholars of the university.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for celibate 
Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
An all-male, celibate hierarchy is making the rules, and there’s this chasm between what Catholics believe in practice and what the church is teaching.
—USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
This will require you to practice vulnerability by vocalizing your decision to be celibate.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
The town was in decline as a center of the wool trade but alive with the mayhem of some fifteen hundred young men—loosely supervised, theoretically celibate, armed with crossbows—the scholars of the university.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for celibate
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'celibate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Thesaurus Entries Near celibate
Cite this Entry
“Celibate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/celibate. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share