Example Sentences

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“That way, you hold on to the bereft sock until another goes missing and then you pair up the mateless socks,” she wrote.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022

Now I will have to fight my human emotions when I hear a finch, wondering if it one of the mateless ones.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2018

In the past, diploid Daphnia have been bred in the lab to cut down on extraneous genetic material that, in the wild, is necessary for their mainly mateless reproductive strategy.

From Scientific American • Feb. 4, 2011

But audiences seemed to like its romping "Games" scene and its suddenly gripping finale, where the heroine finds herself mateless and alone in a crowd of reunited soldiers and wives.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cry to the sun, and sweep And swing along thy mateless, tireless course Above the clouds that sleep Afloat on lazy air—cry on!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert