How to Use sexual in a Sentence
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Jones is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault.
—Clifford Ward, Wheaton Glen Ellyn, 2017-06-08
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If Omar was never comfortable telling his father about questioning his sexual identity, why would have Seddique believed anything to the contrary?
—Edgar Gomez, Longreads, 2017-06-13
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Two months later, he was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and prostitution in another case, after which he was arrested and fired by the Milwaukee Police Department.
—Malaika Jabali, Essence.com, 2017-06-22
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Brandon Banks, a former Vanderbilt University football player, has been found guilty of one count each of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery for his role in the assault of an unconscious woman in a dorm room four years ago.
—Melissa Korn, WSJ, 2017-06-23
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