Example Sentences

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Everyone knows that ending a sentence with a period is just about the rudest thing one human can do to another, murder and cuckoldry notwithstanding.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2018

Beverly I. Strassmann, a University of Michigan anthropologist who gathered the data on paternity rates in Mali, agreed that widespread cuckoldry “was an urban legend. It seemed to have a life of its own.”

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2016

Dr. Larmuseau and other scientists developed other methods to get an unbiased look at cuckoldry.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2016

In the role of Grausis, whom Bassanes has hired to mind Penthea and keep cuckoldry at bay, Olwen Fouéré appears to have been forbidden to play up the character’s sly, earthy humor.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2012