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How to use incest in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb

Incest means sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo. Example: “Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.”

Examples of incest by meaning

nounSexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually...

  • Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
  • Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12
  • He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225

verbTo engage in incestuous sexual activities.

  • I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.1994, Kathryn Carter, Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication
  • Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother2009, Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept, page 206

More sentences with incest

  • Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.From the entry taboo
  • Double mother incest is the absolute best form of LGD, shame it's a niche within a niche.2019 September 13, anonymous author, 4chan, /h/. From the entry LGD
  • We are not dealing with pseudoincest at all, but incest in all its colors.2011, Graham Joyce, “Narrative and Regeneration: The Little Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-century…. From the entry pseudoincest
  • Heck, it's not too hard to find incest themes in non-H these days.2006 March 26, Abraham Evangelista, “Re:Protecting the Children at anime cons”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet). From the entry siscon
  • So you'd say that paedophilia is "normal" to a Paedophile and incest is normal to an incestophile?2002 Ward Stewart, Re: Christophobia Group: alt.atheism. From the entry incestophile
  • There's a myth that incest survivors are an extremely small percentage of the gay male community.1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 8. From the entry rethink
  • Over time, groups that marry out had an advantage over those that did not, so eventually all groups developed incest taboos.2008, James Peoples, Garrick Bailey, Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, →ISBN. From the entry marry out
  • Hoping that a more permissive gov't stance on gay issues will lead to more freedoms for you in matters of incest?2005 Obwan, Re: Tell your kids to bend over and spread their cheeks! Group: or.politics. From the entry incestophile
  • I felt that he had become obsessed with making a statement to the effect that incest was natural normal and ok.2000 July 28, CRC, “The longer I'm here, the more I like Sherman”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet). From the entry daddy dom
  • Are the current incest laws the work of bigoted incestophobes?1997, Laughing Wolf, “Re: Homosexual Education - Taxpayers beware”, in soc.culture.australian (Usenet). From the entry incestophobe
  • Can I oppose special protection for incest without being incestophobic?1994, Roger Magnusson, Informed answers to gay rights questions - Page 49. From the entry incestophobic
  • She was also nonphysically incesting her younger son.1992, John Bradshaw, Homecoming, p 129. From the entry incesting
  • I don’t recommend it though, his book, unless you are into incest, pee, and the word “rectum.” But then, whatever butters your muffin.2019, J.R. Hamilton, “Part Four”, in Prick, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN. From the entry whatever butters your muffin
  • Half of the cases were the classical father-daughter incest, a quarter of them the stepfather-stepdaughter pseudoincest and the remainder were abuse by relatives or siblings.1986, Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty Brnénské university, volumes 30-34, page 67. From the entry pseudoincest
  • Parents researched birth charts probably not so much to assure good fortune as to circumvert incest in a population that has but one hundred surnames.1979, Brain, James Lewton, The last taboo : sex and the fear of death. From the entry circumvert
  • It was filled with hard-core details on stuff from skinema to incest and orgies, and a lot of ministers were appalled by the handbook's contents.1975, New Times, Volume 4, volume 4, New Times Communications Corporation, page 8. From the entry skinema
  • Consanguinamory (consensual adult incest) is not a crime in the US states of New Jersey and Rhode Island and there has been no problem as a result.2015 August 17, Endrik Wilhelm, “Lawyer: 'Legalize incest!'”, in Deutsche Welle. From the entry consanguinamory
  • Most US states still have laws against consensual incest (consanguinamory), and in most of them, people do continue to be prosecuted for simply loving each other.2012 September 11, “Hollywood director places incest alongside gay marriage”, in San Diego LGBT Weekly. From the entry consanguinamory
  • Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449. From the entry anti-incest
  • And these Wanderjahre, and combats with the Beast, are the story-teller's version of the incest taboo; whereby a man must first prove ‘fitness’ and then much ‘marry far’.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 216. From the entry wanderjahr

Meaning of incest

  1. noun Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
  2. noun Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.
  3. verb To engage in incestuous sexual activities.

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Questions about incest in a sentence

How do you use incest in a sentence?
Incest is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.”
What is a short sentence with incest?
“She was also nonphysically incesting her younger son.”
What does incest mean?
Incest means sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.

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