Sentence examples for being celibate from inspiring English sources

I decided being celibate would focus me.

But having to insist that I was happy being celibate made me uncomfortable.

I want people to understand that being celibate can be as nourishing and fulfilling as being in a relationship.

Besides, I had intended to spend this year being celibate after my devastating, interminable divorce, followed immediately by a passionate love affair that ended in sickening heartbreak.

Not according to Dr Nadeem Saddiqui, from the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of Glasgow Royal Infirmary: "There is an association - pretty weak - which indicates that if you have not had children, which is different from being celibate, you are more at risk of getting ovarian cancer," he says.

It presumes that the church has been engaged in a centuries-old cover-up to suppress an extremely embarrassing theological detail: that Jesus, far from being celibate, was actually married -- to Mary Magdalene, no less -- and that he fathered a child, who went on to found the Merovingian dynasty.

"He's celibate".

She was celibate.

Only some of the Essenes were celibate.

But they do have to be celibate.

As a patriarch, Maximus V was celibate.