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• What sex is that hamster?
• The abnormality is found in both sexes.
• Slime molds are sometimes erroneously said to have thirteen sexes.
• The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.
• The researchers divided the subjects by sex.
• All you ever think about is sex.
• We had sex in the back seat.
• [The believers ... those ... ] who abstain from sex
• [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
• She touched his sex with her hand.
• Note on citations: None of the following actually shows that the word was used to mean "womankind".
• ‘With all my heart,’ replied my master; ‘I have so much honour for all the sex, that I would not have the meanest person of it stand, while I sit, had I been to have made the custom.’
• 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, chapter 1, page 52:
• [...] unless it was with his sister-in-law, my father's wife and my mother,—my uncle Toby scarce exchanged three words with the sex in as many years [...]
• Thus female honor, which is dearer to the sex than their lives, is left by the common law to be the sport of an abandoned calumniator.
• But how can each the boasted treasure own, / When through the sex no two chaste wives are known?
• Even the reptile temperament of Noel Vanstone warmed under the influence of the sex: he had an undeniably appreciative eye for a handsome woman, and Magdalen's grace and beauty were not thrown away on him.
• It is not easy to sex lizards.
• OK, so I'm sexin' her, right, and all I can think of is this other girl.
• The passionate lovers sexed each other every night.
• It is not easy to sex a hyena.