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have sex

/seks/US // sɛks //UK // (sɛks) //

进行性交,进行性行为,进行性生活,发生性关系

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : the male, female, or intersex division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
    • : a male, female, or intersex label assigned to a person at birth.
    • : the sum of the structural and functional differences by which male, female, and intersex organisms are distinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on these differences: plants that change sex depending on how much light they receive.
    • : the sexual instinct or attraction drawing one organism toward another, or its manifestation in life and conduct: choosing a life partner based on sex.
    • : sexual relations or activity, especially sexual intercourse: young kids learning about sex.
    • : the genitals; genitalia: A towel was hiding his sex from view.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to ascertain the sex of or assign a sex to, especially newly-hatched chicks.
  1. 1
    • : sex up, Informal. to arouse sexually: The only intent of that show was to sex up the audience.to increase the appeal of; to make more interesting, attractive, or exciting: I needed to sex up my résumé with bold fonts and snappy formatting.

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Examples

  • This would be weird if we were just talking about dinnertime, never mind sex.

  • We ended up going to the swag room, where we started to have sex.

  • There’s enough room to comfortably quarantine for just about everything but sex really.

  • We can’t afford a sex therapist now if you were going to suggest that.

  • It was the third weekend of August, and an anti-sex trafficking rally was about to fill the streets of Salt Lake City.

  • However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

  • Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.

  • To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.

  • Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

  • This week, Florida became the 36th state to allow same-sex marriage.

  • Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?

  • But if you restrict it, to the sense in which it is commonly applied to the angelic sex, I am not prepared to answer.

  • As public accuser, he caused the death of immense numbers, of all ages and either sex.

  • That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.

  • He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.