copula

How To Use copula In A Sentence

• It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
• Also, males cannot force females to copulate as copulation is only possible when the female assumes a horizontal body posture.
• In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana
• A Superior Court judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Monday that there was enough evidence for 41-year-old Melvin Shane Sparks to stand trial on six counts of lewd acts on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16. Melvin Shane Sparks, MTV Dance Judge, Ordered To Trial On Child Oral Sex, Lewd Acts Charges
• AAVE is like Finnish in that it has a separate copular verb of negation meaning ‘not be’, pronounced ain't, and you need that here.
• The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl.
• The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
• The golden orb-web spider Nephila plumipes frequently cannibalizes males both before and during copulation.
• In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.
• The frigid old crone who taught us made copulation seem like the most boring thing possible.