sex-starved
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Vogel, the songwriter, describes the group as “well-read, gifted, currently dangerously sex-starved, deeply compassionate nut jobs. We are working round the clock to keep one another entertained, inspired, fed and virus-free.”
From Los Angeles Times
Rep. Norma Torres was forced to withdraw a statement on the House floor Wednesday after she slammed her pro-life colleagues as “sex-starved.”
From Washington Times
“A Little Night Music” Signature Theatre stages Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical rom-com about an aging actress, a married virgin, a sex-starved divinity student and a clownish count, set in turn-of-the-century Sweden.
From Washington Post
She began to draw praise for her performances on the Parisian stage, notably as the sex-starved Maggie in a 1956 staging of Tennessee Williams’s melodrama “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
From Washington Post
In “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Williams focuses on a wealthy Delta planter and his mendacious family, torn apart by his closeted son, Brick, and his sex-starved wife, Maggie.
From Washington Post
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