How to Use chaste in a Sentence

chaste

adjective
Definition of chastenext
Synonyms for chastenext
  • But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
    — Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The important thing, the priest said, was to remain chaste.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • And not in some chaste, metaphoric, Beauty and the Beast kind of way.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • All in all, though, this is a fairly chaste version of Mr. Koons.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • But there are no nuns, and Jones’s life was anything but chaste, though not by choice.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Some light handholding, or maybe a chaste peck on the mouth, are on the table.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 17 June 2020
  • As Glaze went in for a chaste kiss on the cheek, Perry turned her head at the last second and landed a kiss on the lips!
    — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • But one of the hottest, most thrilling scenes is actually rather chaste.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The Church requires its members to be chaste according to their state in life.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Why must love be chaste to be clean, clean to be elevating?
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • On one of their chaste little dates, Faruk and Mona find themselves on a road through a forest in the failing light of evening.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Dec. 2021
  • By contrast, Ziming’s courtship of Mrs Yu is chaste and old-fashioned.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
  • But rising above all the sexy clutter on my desk is a perfume that’s downright chaste.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 5 July 2017
  • Kopechne was one of this group, and the film treats her with great respect and presents her relationship with Ted as chaste and above board.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • There is no reason to treat him like the guardian of a chaste investigation.
    — David Harsanyi, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Where one steps back, the other leans forward, maintaining a tense but chaste 60-foot gap.
    — Curbed, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Those pure, chaste souls at the Las Vegas sportsbooks have placed their faith in you as favorites this week for the first time in nearly two years.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2022
  • In the Middle Ages, it was thought that a drinking vessel often made from the horn of a cow could detect if a woman was chaste.
    — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Barrie’s chaste romance with Sylvia will leave younger ones fidgety.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
  • This means that a rather chaste air hangs over the film; when Diana and Steve, for example, share a kiss and presumably proceed to the boudoir, the scene fades out pronto.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2017
  • These bizarre animals are chaste survivors in a carnal world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
  • And this is not to say Single's Inferno was prudish or overly chaste.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Van Leeuwenhoek first used his new tool to examine more chaste subjects such as bee stingers, human lice and lake water in the mid-1670s.
    — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 7 June 2017
  • While clearly chaste at the start, this is a romance that builds to a slow, sweet, and at times steamily, satisfying end.
    — Usa Today Life Staff, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Crystal had given Hefner a sculpture, strangely chaste, of the two of them sitting on a bench, young love courting.
    — Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Harry moves his body a little closer to mine and playfully pulls me down alongside him and gives me a chaste kiss on my forehead.
    — The Cut, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Billy wins Alice’s trust, and the two become (chaste) companions.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
  • These chaste messages gave rise to a more offbeat (and unofficial) transmission in the 1980s.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2022
  • Birth is a chaste romantic fantasy that sinks into something like tragedy.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Lolo’s vulgar line of questioning and theories about Kat’s private art, paired with the reveal that Kat pretends to be a chaste virgin in her relationship with her very Christian fiancé, build up the comedic tension.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023

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