Below you will find example sentences with "gay man". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gay Man in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: gay
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gay man" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a closeted gay man coming to, a young gay man it can, woman, young and concerned stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with gay men, gay rights, openly gay, gay men, gay rights and openly gay, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gay man
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A straight man playing a gay man. (7 words)
He said ‘Ask any gay man and see that moving, they say that’s gay,’” Duterte said. (17 words)
And as a gay man, this looked like wanting to be white, toned and over 6-feet-tall. (18 words)
Not long afterward, the gay community began using to mean a young, attractive gay man, as on the cover of XY magazine in 2000 came to be applied not only to men but also to boyish young women—originally young women in skateboarding. (43 words)
They did the same when a landlord rented to a man when a woman offered to pay more, or a heterosexual when a lesbian or gay man offered to pay more, or a thin person when an obese person offered to pay more. (43 words)
I’m a 58-year-old happily married gay man, and I have a well-hidden kink that I’ve had since childhood: I get off on destructive, city-smashing giants—think of Godzilla as a muscular man smashing things with his dick. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was what my own people would think of it, that they would be concerned that my family have a gay man who's very openly gay, very unabashedly gay, so publicly.
He continued: “Being a gay man, or even a gay woman or a transgender man or a transgender woman in America and around the world is still a harder road to travel on.
Here is an article about a gay man who prayed the gay away and married to a ‘former’ lesbian.
Not long afterward, the gay community began using to mean a young, attractive gay man, as on the cover of XY magazine in 2000 came to be applied not only to men but also to boyish young women—originally young women in skateboarding.
All the more, the audience is supposedly laughing at how rom-coms portray offensive gay best friend caricatures, but it seems directed to laugh the stereotypical gay man (Brandon Scott Jones) as he talks about shopping and astrology.
Buttigieg also spoke about his own experiences facing discrimination as a gay man, noting the “weight lifted” when the government’s policy barring gay men from serving in the military was reversed.
Dunn blasted the meme in a tweet over the weekend, writing: “Don’t use my image for your internalised homophobia, don’t make assumptions on the kind of gay man I am or the kind of gay men I associate myself with.
He said ‘Ask any gay man and see that moving, they say that’s gay,’” Duterte said.
The actor who essayed the role of a man with erectile dysfunction is now playing the role of a gay man.
They did the same when a landlord rented to a man when a woman offered to pay more, or a heterosexual when a lesbian or gay man offered to pay more, or a thin person when an obese person offered to pay more.
I’m a 58-year-old happily married gay man, and I have a well-hidden kink that I’ve had since childhood: I get off on destructive, city-smashing giants—think of Godzilla as a muscular man smashing things with his dick.
That being said its great that we live in a time where a black man can be president (yet people still claim racism is rampant) and a gay man can run.
A straight man playing a gay man.
More specifically, Katims was asked why he decided to adapt Volpe’s true story from one about being a closeted gay man coming to terms with himself into that of a restless straight family man.
In his view, a gay man who was confused about his sexual identity and felt himself to be “a woman with the wish to be loved by a man” was not a promising candidate for cure.
A 25-year-old gay man who has been living and working in Edmonton since 2018 is concerned for his safety because he’s being deported back to Uganda.
AFP identified the participant in the photo as a middle-aged gay man in California who said in a Zoom interview that he was in "disbelief" when a concerned friend showed him one of the abusive posts.
And as a gay man, this looked like wanting to be white, toned and over 6-feet-tall.
As a gay man who grew up in a rural area, House knew just how impactful this story would be.
As a young gay man, it can be terrifying to walk through unlit areas at night by myself, especially on a Friday or Saturday.