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How To Use monogamous In A Sentence

• When social mating systems were dichotomized, extrapair chicks were twice as frequent in monogamous as in polygynous species.
• We can also see this in the contrapositive: having more than one sexual partner is by definition nonmonogamous. S-e-x. « Love | Peace | Ohana
• Downy Woodpeckers form monogamous breeding pairs in late winter.
• Have you ever thought how great it would be if someone took the ickiest aspects of monogamous lifestyle BDSM, blended it with a double measure of religious-right patriarchy, then added a generous sprinkling of disturbing domestic violence? Happy Slapping
• Although Muslim law allows polygyny, economic realities mean most Brahui marriages are monogamous.
• You'd like a long-lasting monogamous relationship but your previous was traumatic and the hurt has gone deep. The Sun
• The house-martin is a socially monogamous and monomorphic hirundine.
• Like other vireos, Red-eyed Vireos are monogamous.
• He claims we allow our ‘culture’ to become desexualized by opting for roles as monogamous spouses and television decorators, which somehow lets society cast our sexuality as shameful and secret.
• I don’t understand how this may pose a challenge to my feminism, although from having read other responses to this question I gather it becomes a question of gendered/gendering resources – i.e. that the ideal AP mom is staying at home and attending full-time to her child’s needs, thus requiring a partner (presumably a husband, implying both heteronormativity and a degree of monogamousness). Feminist mothering. « Love | Peace | Ohana