How to Use chastity in a Sentence

chastity

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  • And maybe all that shining and all that chastity were cathartic.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Those who act against that chastity rule risk losing their standing in the church.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • And if Rhaenyra needed Plan Tea, that means Rhaenyra lied about her chastity (or lack thereof).
    — ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Between the goddess and her nymphs, bathing in the sacred grotto, lives the premise of chastity even as the nymphs flirt in their eloquent poses.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The ropes have three knots that symbolize the priests’ vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Dawn, who has grown up near to a nuclear power plant, is a staunch member of her high school's chastity club.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That accords with the law of chastity of the faith, which Hawes believes is reasonable to ask students at BYU to follow.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Brandan and Mary spent the night together in their shared bed — sleeping top to tail to preserve their chastity.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Roberto De Paolis makes his feature debut with the story of a teenage girl about to take a vow of chastity and the boy who catches her eye.
    — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • Either/Or shares none of the chastity of its predecessor.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The great irony is that these men and women are living out exactly what the church asks of LGBT people -- chastity and celibacy -- and they are not allowed to talk about it.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 July 2017
  • Missionaries with the Culture Project travel across the country, speaking to Catholic school, youth and young adult groups about the ideals of chastity, modesty and pure love.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Will one of the shepherds succeed in seducing a rifle-wielding goddess sworn to chastity?
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Marin later took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, becoming a lay worker for the Church.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Being a good Saint meant keeping the Word of Wisdom, abiding by the law of chastity, honesty, obedience and decency.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • These accessories, also a sign of chastity, adorn Elizabeth’s dress and dangle from her neck.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Rhaenyra’s chastity is essential in marrying her to a noble house.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • The seduction of young women in such places would result in a fall from chastity to sin, followed by a life of spinsterhood or, worse, prostitution.
    — Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020
  • On this day the priestly promises of chastity, obedience and poverty are renewed before a Bishop.
    — Nadia Cantú, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Harris’ bestselling books on chastity have, for some years, been widely blamed for mainstreaming junk theology in the first place.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • And yet Mandingo panic cannot fully explain Johnson’s onscreen chastity, because his Blackness in the movies is rarely a given.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • This was hardly the first occasion when a party had locked its politicians in purdah to preserve their chastity from a predatory rival.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • The nuns took vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty — and, some say, an unofficial vow of humility.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Too Hot to Handle is basically a version of Love Island with an element of chastity.
    — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The emphasis on chastity clearly places burdens on women. ...
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Prudentius’ Psychomachia has been called the first pure allegory—a work that gave abstract virtues like chastity and humility and vices like wrath and pride human forms.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
  • The New York Times's wedding announcements, the ne plus ultra of the genre and once a bastion of happily antiquated chastity, now read more like a gossip magazine.
    — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 18 Feb. 2014
  • In an era before rape kits, and when victims were regularly cross-examined in court on their chastity and skirt length, Royston decided to fight for justice.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • Born the son of a wealthy merchant in Assisi, Francis devoted himself after a religious vision to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience.
    — Perri Klass, New York Times, 5 July 2023

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