monogamist

Example Sentences

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A sub-Antarctic species, gentoo penguins on average live between 12 and 13 years and are famously romantic monogamists.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

It’s true, for instance, that many forms of monogamy have been exclusionary, were based on outdated gender conventions and could, as one of Vice’s radical monogamists put it, breed “boredom, disloyalty and stagnation.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

The small rodents are one of the few known monogamists in the wild–and their faithfulness was put to the test in a lab.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2022

“I have some friends who are serial monogamists, in and out of relationships, and their most common thing has been commitment-phobes,” she says.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2020

The powerful chiefs had as many wives and concubines as their wealth and influence would support, but the bulk of the people were monogamists.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil