Sentence examples for sexual characteristic from inspiring English sources

Garai gives a sly, dogged, melancholic performance, turning curiosity into a desirable sexual characteristic.

At the same time, the author doesn't hide behind other lives or pedantry, or waggle his intellect like a sort of showy, distracting secondary sexual characteristic.

"Hair is called a secondary sexual characteristic," says Philip Kingsley, one of the UK's leading trichologists, and the man who coined the term "bad hair day".

"We have thought of showing off skin as a secondary sexual characteristic but maybe it's simpler than that -- just a billboard for healthy skin," he said.

For the neck to be a primarily sexual characteristic, it would need to be larger in males than in females, like a fiddler crab's fiddle claw — but it isn't.

We discuss the preferential use of one secondary sexual characteristic (UV reflectance) over another (pheromones) with regard to evolutionary strategies.

There were primary sexual characteristics (womb, gonads) and secondary sexual characteristics (breasts, Adam's apple).

Without getting bogged down in arguments about secondary sexual characteristics, a campaign was launched.

Mr. Russell said such predators may seek specific sexual characteristics in these children.

It transpired that a number of female athletes possessed secondary male sexual characteristics — and primary, for that matter.

Other side effects include liver tumors, impotence, breast enlargement and shrunken testicles in men and male sexual characteristics in women.