Example Sentences

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They abandon their true needs and desires to don the robes of sexlessness, self-sacrifice and self-denial.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore a tailored gray suit that clung to her body with all the perfection and sexlessness of a window mannikin.

From Get Out of Our Skies! by Jarvis, E. K.

His shrieks were shrill and piercing; within them no hoarse notes, but only the thin sexlessness of the voice of a child.

From The Road by London, Jack

It spared neither age nor sexlessness, not even this shrivelled ancient who was meditating on her latter end.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

Here there is a moral sexlessness, a kind of ineffectual wholeness of nature, yet with a true beauty and significance of its own.

From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Pater, Walter