chaste

Example Sentences

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Jesus is widely thought to have never married and to have lived a chaste life.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

She says the idea of the Sisterhood choosing to be chaste and not have men around is something considered “intensely mysterious and threatening.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

K-dramas are famously chaste, which is part of their global appeal.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023

Still, these were details ABC might have accounted for before constructing the sensitive, chaste gentleman fantasy that made everyone weak in the knees.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

At times I tried to picture the world she had been born into, in 1866 — a world, I imagined, filled with women in long black skirts, and chaste conversations in the parlor.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri