How to Use heterosexual in a Sentence

heterosexual

adjective

• These are the most heterosexual movies of the season, possibly of the year, maybe even of all time.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• Drag Race has had a heterosexual male drag queen, and a woman drag queen.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2022
• For so long, many of these TV romances have been heterosexual: Girl meets boy.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 27 June 2022
• The title refers to the fact that Jackson and Sharp, who are gay, play hyper-macho, heterosexual jerks.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• For its first half, Ahn’s film bends over backward to placate to heterosexual viewers and is all the weaker for it.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• But during the last decade, the infection has spread to more heterosexual men and women.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Does the female half of a heterosexual couple wear an engagement ring, while the male half doesn’t?
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 2 June 2022
• In heterosexual relationships, the women most of the time, of course.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
• About 1% of all married, heterosexual parents with children under the age of 15 are stay-at-home dads this year.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
• This season of The Ultimatum includes five heterosexual couples who are at a fork in the road.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
• But that’s just one obstacle to having the same rights as married heterosexual couples in the country.
  — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 4 June 2023
• For one thing, her very white and very heterosexual focus seems markedly narrow in 2022.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
• As part of the research, 256 Australian men (half who are gay, and half who are heterosexual) were asked to help cast a gay man in a campaign promoting the country’s largest city, Sydney.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The memorial also attracted a steady flow of heterosexual teenagers and young adults.
  — Tim Craig, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
• Research shows that the earnings gap between heterosexual spouses doubles between two years before the birth of their first child and one year after.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• This is what Stephenie Meyer thinks is heterosexual love: one predator, one prey.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• That’s twice the rate of less affluent heterosexual couples.
  — Jill Yavorsky, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• This is a film about the strained and ever-shifting tectonic plates of heterosexual relationships, above all else.
  — Nadine Smith, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2023
• For heterosexual women, their frustrations and pains have come from men.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ballroom dancing has long been symbolic of heterosexual norms – a male-female partnership with the male taking the lead -- but that could be changing.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2022
• In my mind, white, heterosexual businessmen who shouted stock prices into their phones wore suits.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
• The virus was ignored by the mainstream press for years except when cases were reported in women, children or heterosexual men.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 June 2022
• Part of the mental load of being a mother in a heterosexual relationship can be having to woman-splain gender roles to her partner and request help.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• And gay men and lesbians are sometimes forced into heterosexual marriages and fear coming out to their families and co-workers.
  — Safak Timur Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Would the obligations be different in the case of a heterosexual couple, which society is more accepting of?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• For people who are cisgender or heterosexual, this is a way to sort of reclaim that identity in a really public way.
  — TIME, 27 Oct. 2023
• He was known for helping heterosexual couples who yearned to become parents.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022
• This makes the series Netflix's first dating show to feature non-heterosexual relationships as a rule.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Apr. 2022
• The lack of diversity in the romance genre is obvious in the cover art itself, which largely features white and heterosexual couples.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Feb. 2023
• The couples pictured are almost always heterosexual, and the birthing parent is almost always white.
  — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024