Example Sentences

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In 2021, Australian biologist Brendan Zietsch and colleagues presented evidence that heterosexuals carrying same-sex-associated alleles have more sexual partners than those not carrying the variants.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

Last year the number of heterosexuals newly-diagnosed with HIV was higher than in gay and bisexual men in Scotland for the first time in 15 years, according to data from Public Health Scotland.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

While 69% of heterosexuals described their physical health as “good” or “excellent,” only half of their non-straight peers said the same.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2023

“Every night he introduced me with shining words to these walls of heterosexuals all over the world,” Anohni intoned, as a drummer in the park bashed away in the distance.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

I want heterosexuals to love the book too, but I’m not changing the depiction of this world to meet their sensibilities.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022