How to Use monogamous in a Sentence

monogamous

adjective
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  • Also, artists aren’t, for the most part, supposed to be monogamous.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Blue duikers are not monogamous, and each female gives birth to one calf at a time.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2021
  • Meanwhile, Stephen and Lucy are getting hot and heavy, but Stephen doesn’t want to be monogamous with her.
    — Keely Weiss, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Some non-monogamous people hope that this will change in the future.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • Just wait until Porsche learns that the V-8 doesn’t have any monogamous feelings toward Porsche.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The couple are monogamous, which is quite rare in the animal kingdom.
    — Hannah Thomasy, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • What a great learning curve for a monogamous girlie traversing the dating landscape.
    — Phoebe McIlwraith, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Now Kody is in a monogamous relationship for the first time in decades with fourth wife Robyn Brown, the only wife to whom he was legally married.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Kelvin, who is 23 years old and a trans guy, has had to do a lot of personal growth to make his current non-monogamous relationship work.
    — Quinn Rhodes, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Once bonded, gambel’s quail usually remain monogamous, although in some cases, the hen will leave the male to raise the brood, find a new mate, and nest a second time.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
  • For seven weeks last autumn, The White Lotus was the internet’s monogamous boyfriend.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
  • And at the end of the day, of course, the benefits of a committed relationship are the same whether monogamous, polyamorous, legally recognized or not.
    — Jenny Block, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • These animals are serially monogamous with their meals, taking food in one glob at a time, then expelling the scraps through the same hole.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
  • The study, published in the journal Neuron, used prairie voles, one of the few mammals known to form lifelong monogamous relationships, to test the hypothesis.
    — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The movie spends so much time trying to reclaim her as wholesome (loves her nan, doggedly monogamous, wants children) that her transgressive streak and naughty sense of humor ring false.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 May 2024
  • There’s not a perfect pattern to which species will be monogamous and which won’t, but it’s typically related to the way those species reproduce.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The news came as a major bombshell since the bar owner had been in a nine-year monogamous relationship with Scheana's longtime best friend Ariana Madix.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Not every person swimming laps in the dating pool is looking for a permanent monogamous life raft.
    — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Beavers are meant to be together, the zoo said, noting that the creatures are social, monogamous and organize themselves in the wild as family units, building domed lodges of sticks and mud.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • If finalized, many gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships would be able to donate blood for the first time in decades.
    — Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • They’re typically born in clutches of five to seven eggs to monogamous parents.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • Dik-Dik These tiny antelope are socially monogamous and form deep attachments to their mate.
    — Devin Farmiloe, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, polyamorous relationships can end badly, but so can monogamous ones.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
  • Nor the fact that my straight, monogamous relationship of almost five years was beginning to come apart at the seams — in part because of those heretofore unexpressed desires.
    — Aisling Walsh, refinery29.com, 15 June 2021
  • Though many people assumed that Kander and Ebb were a couple — their 45-year partnership was more intense and monogamous than many marriages — the men were not socially close.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Alwyn's character, Nick Conway, is in an open relationship in the series and he was asked by a reporter about being non-monogamous.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Most people on this earth are far more comfortable in a monogamous relationship.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • African penguins are monogamous, and typically have one partner for life.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Whether open or monogamous, all relationships are defined by rules.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The study also found that more than a quarter (26%) of Americans say their ideal relationship is something non-monogamous.
    — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2022

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