Read full poem →Be more than woman she would get above
All thought of sex, and think to move
My heart to study her, and not to love;
Dictionary Entry
sex
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/sɛks/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
In a Sentence
“The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.”
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Poetry examples for “sex”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The honest man, and a’ that.
Tho’ wit and worth, in either sex,
Saint Mary’s Isle can shaw that,
Read full poem →A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were
lacking.