How to Use polygamous in a Sentence

polygamous

adjective
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  • While some of the splinter groups were once polygamous, many no longer are.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • But not being polygamous, the band had to part ways with Klinghoffer.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Christine was the first of Kody's four wives to leave their polygamous arrangement.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Male great-tailed grackles are polygamous and will mate with three or four females.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Public school with ties to polygamous Kingston group looks to expand.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The series has followed the polygamous Brown family for more than eight years.
    — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
  • Bobcats are polygamous and do not form lasting pair bonds.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Colorado City says police ties to polygamous group are past.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2021
  • She was born to American parents in Italy, where her father headed a sect of the polygamous Children of God cult.
    — Barbara Spindel, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
  • In the pioneering, even polygamous, past, things looked more hopeful for the state’s women.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Janelle's 52-year-old spouse is also married to Meri Brown and Robyn Brown through their polygamous arrangement.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Utah public school with ties to polygamous sect placed on ‘warning’ status.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had at least 20 wives, officials said.
    — Felicia Fonseca, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Women were to be monogamous, while men were to be polygamous, Nxivm taught.
    — Nicole Hong, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Among the countries that were surveyed, Kuwait topped the list of polygamous countries with around 8% of married men having multiple wives.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Striped skunks are polygamous, with some males having a harem of several females.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Lawmakers have made clear that the bill does not recognize polygamous unions.
    — Emily Sacia, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Floodwaters also killed a dozen people in a polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border that year.
    — Fox News, 13 May 2020
  • The Talmud tells of an aging man in a polygamous society who decides to marry a second, younger wife.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Kody Brown is not sure how his family's polygamous approach will survive in the future.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2022
  • From Israel, a drama, set in the polygamous Bedouin culture, that won the world cinema grand jury prize at Sundance.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
  • Others, though, say that easing restrictions on polygamous marriages won’t do much to help victims and could even make things worse.
    — Time, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Gordon is maybe a prophet, or a militia separatist or a polygamous child abuser.
    — Nathan Hill, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • At one extreme, polygamous gorilla males grow to be more than twice as massive as females.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • The two young sisters said they were being sent to Winston Blackmore, a polygamous leader in British Columbia.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Many members were born in Mexico and have dual citizenship. While some of the splinter groups were once polygamous, many no longer are.
    — Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Kody Brown is beginning a new chapter after the demise of his polygamous family.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Docents lead tours and answer questions about the polygamous wives who lived here, though most of his 56 wives lived in other accommodations.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
  • That's a weird question because first of all, there have always been people who are polygamous, and there have always been people who were celibate or asexual.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Meri Brown is reflecting on the collapse of her polygamous family within 14 months.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023

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