How to Use promiscuous in a Sentence

promiscuous

adjective
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  • Bring your promiscuous husband and dance the night away, boo!
    — Terra Jolé, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2017
  • So, sperm length is longer in more promiscuous species.
    — Louise Gentle, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The group makes politely promiscuous tracks that place the trio’s origin story in the realm of pre-ordained.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
  • The pretty, promiscuous girl is the first victim in slasher movies.
    — Sascha Cohen, SELF, 17 May 2018
  • Mouse lemurs are promiscuous, and during mating the males have to cling to the slightly larger females.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2015
  • This soft-voiced, promiscuous bird ekes out a living in tidal marshes.
    — Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022
  • Males have been found to make the most sperm in species where individuals are most promiscuous.
    — Louise Gentle, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2018
  • If the three x’s didn’t give it away, this song is quite promiscuous, Gaga inviting a girl over to play out her nastiest fantasies while her boyfriend is out of town.
    — Henry Youtt, Billboard, 15 June 2018
  • There’s also a very typical stereotype that gay men are promiscuous and flirty and out at the club.
    — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Come up with the PG title of a movie about a group of paranormal researchers who attempt to rid the building of this promiscuous presence.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Among them was Humpty Hump, the promiscuous goofball from D.U.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • One or two bunches of kale-or-other are stemmed and chopped and swept into a sink full of fresh water, then scooped out and sautéed with garlic and chili flakes in a promiscuous amount of good olive oil.
    — Tamar Adler, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • One or two bunches of kale-or-other are stemmed and chopped and swept into a sink full of fresh water, then scooped out and sautéed with garlic and chili flakes in a promiscuous amount of good olive oil.
    — Tamar Adler, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • This is not people who were promiscuous or who cheated on their spouses.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Further, species that are more promiscuous tended to have larger penises and pelvic bones.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
  • All the while, fascism encroaches on the promiscuous, homoerotic fun of the club.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
  • There's so much going on behind the surface and as to why Malva does become promiscuous and does meet with a lot of men, there's a very specific reason for it all.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Trump has a promiscuous habit (no, not that one) of flinging wild accusations.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In March, the artist released the hit single with a promiscuous music video, featuring him sliding down a stripper pole to Hell and giving Satan a lap dance.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
  • In it, Ethel is portrayed as promiscuous and without scruples.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • In the 1960s, with the foregrounding of radical left politics and its language, the use of sellout became promiscuous.
    — Franz Nicolay, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
  • Who would not rather pruriently pore over a promiscuous society upstart’s past than deal with the awkward geopolitics of the day?
    — Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Before the first step, Chapais said, both male and female hominins were, like chimpanzees, promiscuous with partners.
    — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • And Bliss argued that Janice Dickinson, the former model who said Cosby raped her in 1982, was promiscuous and a bad role model.
    — Anna North, Vox, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Rogue killers stalk happy campers, promiscuous teens meet untimely ends in showers, and overbearing mothers come out to play for those who don’t play nice.
    — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Dorm Daze was a hit on DVD, encouraging him to become even more promiscuous with film-licensing deals.
    — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
  • Dorm Daze was a hit on DVD, encouraging him to become even more promiscuous with film-licensing deals.
    — Benjamin Wallace, VanityFair.com, 19 May 2017
  • My faith has been questioned by thousands who don’t know my heart, and my transparency with my decisions has labeled me promiscuous.
    — Marie Claire, 14 Aug. 2019
  • There are good reasons to be skeptical about the promiscuous use of military power.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The greatest targets of Big John’s ire, former students say, were young female students who were perceived as having been promiscuous.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2024

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