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How to use celibate in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word celibate? Here are some examples.

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All the celibate religieux of India dress in orange no matter what religion they come from.
This example is to be contrasted with that of the celibate who decides that the most fulfilling life for him will be one of abstinence.
Clearly this person is celibate or single, because there is no way anyone could get intimate with her without losing an eye.
But they dismissed questions about whether married priests were an option, saying a celibate priesthood was not the reason for the shortage.
Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
And it includes persons who were celibate and still champions of marriage, such as Paul and our Lord.
Denouncing unchaste women, Hamlet madly advises Ophelia to become a celibate nun.
What is more important, to allow people a better chance of getting to mass on Sunday or to keep priests celibate?
Religious dress and grave goods were used to differentiate celibate priests and monks from ordinary secular men.
The archbishop has said priests need not be celibate and that God's blessings were meant to be given through the family.
Since priests are celibate, what does their sexual orientation have to do with it anyway?
The laity, however, reserved their deepest respect for the celibate, highly-educated Franciscan friars.
I was addressing the problem of celibate priests who are in danger of leading lives divorced from the feminine.
A heterosexually oriented celibate will sin adulterously with a married woman or be guilty of fornication with an unmarried one.
Last night, in an address to bishops in Nigeria, Pope John Paul II insisted that priests must live celibate lives and avoid scandalous behaviour.
After all, it's the land of the free and the home of the abstinence vow, where many teenagers pledge to be celibate until marriage.
In any event, no one could accuse him of being a remote celibate who did not know what he was talking about.
Due to a personal spiritual quest, Radha's husband has remained celibate for 13 years.
I know what it is like to be heterosexual, single, and celibate and it is tough.
Taize is a celibate, monastic community of men living under a common rule with Brother Roger as prior.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This particular specimen of the genus was both a vegetarian and a celibate.
Certainly the two kins could not change their totems, and certainly they would not remain celibate.
He was neither milksop nor adventurer, neither celibate by nature nor debauchee.
A dissenting branch called Nadiapanthi has now arisen in Raipur, all of whom are celibate.
A celibate religion ever suspects the serpent in the neighbourhood of the woman.
The clergy were to abstain from red meat and wine and were to be celibate.
For if so, then would a celibate clergy have grant of immunity.
Association makes the sacrifice and the work possible to the celibate.
The sanguine Mahooley was no celibate, and he cared not who knew it.
Du Bousquier was depicted as a species of celibate Pere Gigogne, a monster, who for the last fifteen years had kept the Foundling Hospital supplied.
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