How to Use monogamy in a Sentence

monogamy

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  • Monogamy is common among birds.
  • The first three episodes — on monogamy, the racial wealth gap, and gene editing — are out this week.
    — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 26 May 2018
  • To submit to monogamy would be to lose his louche appeal.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In monogamy the protective choice is to not sleep with anyone else.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 8 May 2024
  • Kody Brown sees a brighter future for Christine Brown in monogamy.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • What has changed about monogamy or family life in the past 27 years to account for the closing gap?
    — Kim Brooks, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
  • At the end of the day, Meyers believes the essence of a wedding is the same no matter what the couple believes in terms of monogamy.
    — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Adams points out people sometimes opt for monogamy briefly.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • One couple's version of monogamy doesn't have to match anyone else's.
    — Rachel Raczka, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The exception is birds — 90 percent of which practice some form of monogamy.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • However, the lines are blurred when the couples start to question the concept of monogamy with each other.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The writer shook up the monogamy as the lone expert in a 11-person panel to pick Miami to make the Final Four.
    — Rolando Rosa, ajc, 10 Nov. 2017
  • As Samantha Jones was telling all along, not everyone is cut out for monogamy.
    — Nell Beram, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
  • All told, experts now think that true monogamy is only found in 7% of species, according to Cooke's book.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 June 2022
  • The ring, a pink diamond the size of Affleck’s head, would go down in pop-culture monogamy history.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 20 May 2021
  • Whether that has anything to do with ScarJo's recent comments about monogamy – who knows?
    — Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The idea of life-long or serial monogamy is embedded in most cultures.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The difference between monogamy and openness isn’t that the desire is raging in one and absent in the other.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • Throughout the episode, Mallmann expressed no pretense of monogamy.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Two people fall in love, get married and stay exclusive until the end of their lives – that's classic monogamy for you.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • This story about a woman refusing to choose monogamy was the first full-length film for Spike Lee, who wrote and directed it.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But the Roman faith doesn’t seem to have left much mark on him, to judge by the prime minister’s professed indifference to monogamy.
    — The Economist, 27 July 2019
  • Getty Images Here’s a fun fact: The concept of monogamy is a relatively new one.
    — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Among his converts was a ruler with several wives, whom de Britto convinced to adopt monogamy.
    — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Lauren Goode: Has working on this book changed your notion at all of romantic love or monogamy?
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But Cannon did state previously that monogamy wasn’t for him.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But what started to happen was monogamy started to become a fetish, in the same way that open relationships are a fetish for people.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Cassidy also begins to shift, rethinking her stance on monogamy and love.
    — Camille Perri, Marie Claire, 11 June 2018
  • For penguins, monogamy of any sort is convenient and necessary: One partner can hatch the chick while the other forages for food.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Another reason swinging is popular is because some couples feel monogamy puts too much pressure on one partner to meet all of the other's needs.
    — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2024

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