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Explore Lesbian through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like homosexual or sapphic. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Lesbian in a sentence

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Lesbian meaning

  1. Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
  2. Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.

Synonyms of Lesbian

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Using Lesbian

  • The main meaning on this page is: Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners. | Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners. | Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
  • Useful related words include: homosexual, sapphic, tribade, gay woman.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: lesbienne, lesbo, lesbi.
  • In the example corpus, lesbian often appears in combinations such as: and lesbian, lesbian gay, as lesbian.

Context around Lesbian

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Lesbian

  • In this selection, "lesbian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, gay, openly, modern, community, woman and queer stand out and add context to how "lesbian" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include gay and lesbian community and am a lesbian out loud. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lesbian" sits close to words such as annie, avalanche and baton, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lesbian

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

In the ideal society, named Lesbian Nation, "woman" and "lesbian" were interchangeable. (12 words)

Lesbian women are said to benefit from the “lesbian premium,” earning more than straight women doing the same work. (19 words)

In 1999, she received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community. (24 words)

The jokes Smith refers to include a moment where characters approached members of the audience, stated an absurd, 1950s-esque reason the person must be a lesbian, and urged them to say the phrase “I am a lesbian” out loud. (40 words)

Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels; I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. (39 words)

For women who subscribed to this philosophy—dubbing themselves lesbian-feminists —lesbian was a term chosen by women to describe any woman who dedicated her approach to social interaction and political motivation to the welfare of women. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

A man who shot into the residence of a lesbian woman and attempted to shoot others who he perceived to be lesbian, queer and gay, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Lesbian comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer was the first openly lesbian comic to appear on “Late Night with David Letterman” and have her own HBO special in 1994.

Enter: the femmicure — also referred to as the queer or lesbian manicure and sometimes called lesbian nails — a nail trend that (auto)straddles both fashion and functionality.

Out of this game, came a fan who asked the actress if she was a lesbian and she replied that she wasn’t a lesbian but a bisexual.

It’s important for your readers to know that the lesbian world—I don’t really identify as a lesbian, but that’s kind of what we were—it was kind of racially divided.

Speaking about playing a lesbian in the film, Zareen said, “It is a story about the friendship between a gay boy and a lesbian girl.

The jokes Smith refers to include a moment where characters approached members of the audience, stated an absurd, 1950s-esque reason the person must be a lesbian, and urged them to say the phrase “I am a lesbian” out loud.

But plans to erect a plaque to honour Anne Lister as the “first modern lesbian” have descended into a row after it failed to include the word “lesbian” for fear of causing offence.

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Lesbian women are said to benefit from the “lesbian premium,” earning more than straight women doing the same work.

While there were gay, lesbian and transgender teens at Spectrum, the majority of the youth Robertson studied called themselves “queer,” a wider sexuality- and gender-encompassing identity specifically separate from gay or lesbian.

All relationships between women, Rich proposed, have some lesbian element, regardless if they claim a lesbian identity: mothers and daughters, women who work together, and women who nurse each other, for example.

Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels; I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962.

For women who subscribed to this philosophy—dubbing themselves lesbian-feminists —lesbian was a term chosen by women to describe any woman who dedicated her approach to social interaction and political motivation to the welfare of women.

Gay- and lesbian-oriented traditions Dianic Wicca is a religion that welcomes lesbian pagans and celebrates their perspectives on feminism, sexism, and women's empowerment within patriarchal culture.

Historical Feminism Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on feminist and lesbian themes in her work, such as in the 1997 collection of critical essays, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer.

However, an old lesbian friend of Larson told him it was wrong to call Maureen a lesbian because of her attraction to men, and that is where the idea of her being a bisexual started.

In 1980, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich expanded upon the political meaning of lesbian by proposing a continuum of lesbian existence based on "woman-identified experience".

In 1999, she received the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Vanguard Award for her continued work in supporting the gay and lesbian community.

In the ideal society, named Lesbian Nation, "woman" and "lesbian" were interchangeable.

It appeared on the compilation CD Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras of 1999, and its music video, co-directed by Minogue, was a tribute to Australia's gay and lesbian community.

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Common combinations with lesbian

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "lesbian" in a sentence?
An example: "A man who shot into the residence of a lesbian woman and attempted to shoot others who he perceived to be lesbian, queer and gay, was sentenced to 18 years in prison." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "lesbian" from authentic English texts.
What does "lesbian" mean?
Lesbian means: Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
What are synonyms of "lesbian"?
Common synonyms of "lesbian" include: homosexual, sapphic, tribade, gay woman, homophile, homo, gay, greek. Plus 1 more synonyms.
What is "lesbian" in Dutch?
"lesbian" translates to Dutch as: lesbienne, lesbo, lesbi.
How many example sentences with "lesbian" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "lesbian", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.