Sentence examples for among mates from inspiring English sources

That enjoyable word, denoting good times among mates, is a new catch-all excuse for nastiness, containing within it the implication that those campaigning against prejudice lack a sense of humour.

They typically disdain the pompous and ostentatious, and they are often characterized as informal and "laid back," an impression fostered by the typical and now internationally recognized greeting among "mates" and "sheilas": G'day (Good day).

It was something of a cliché that the evening ended with everyone's coming back onstage to sing "The Parting Glass," the Irish ode to a night of song and drinking among mates.

The event may be big in Germany and Austria but its reputation has yet to spread very far beyond those borders so although it boasts world-class music acts, at its core it remains a giddy and exuberant party among mates.

Unfortunately for this line of argument, men are expected to obsess about precisely the traits that women -- overtly or subtly -- use to discriminate among mates.

High rearing density and restricted feeding may create strong competition among mates and result in a negative direct indirect genetic correlation.

Figure 7 shows that MAI reduces the CHF among mating pairs much faster than random sib-matings.

In addition, we found evidence consistent with the possibility that the positive phenotypic correlations among mating behaviours are underlain by positive genetic correlations.

An overall female preference for territorial males has been noted among mated females, although in virgin females the direction of preference for territorial males apparently varies among populations.

An overall preference for males holding territories has in fact been found among mated D. melanogaster females in previous studies [18], suggesting there is likely to be some overall positive fitness effect to holding territory.

I also looked at comparisons among mate groups within each taxon.