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Example sentences for "males"

Lexicographically close words:
malefactors; malefic; maleficent; maleic; maleness; malevolence; malevolent; malevolently; malfeasance; malformation
  1. She contented herself with bringing in a few well-trained young males of her own class, who were expected to be attentive to the girls, treating them as equals, just as Miss Lydia did.

  2. Why should she never exercise her critical faculty except as between such males as are rivals for her favour?

  3. White males having been citizens of the county six months; also male persons of color, twenty-one years of age, who are competent witnesses in a court of justice against a white man.

  4. White males twenty-two years of age, having resided in the state one year, in the county one month, and within two years paid a county tax assessed at least six months before the election.

  5. It is supposed that the spines and perhaps the sharp teeth are used for holding the female, but it seems equally probable that these structures are really used by the males in fighting with each other.

  6. It not only develops by a gradual change, but it is a secondary sexual character developing in the males only at maturity.

  7. The fact that unaffected males do not transmit the defect shows, according to Bateson, that it is due to the addition of a factor to the normal, not to omission of a factor.

  8. I have shown that the spinules develop in the mature males not as a modification of the scale, but as separate calcareous deposits the bases of which afterwards become united to the scale.

  9. When a black male is mated to a yellow female, the female kittens are tortoise-shell as before, but the males yellow.

  10. Of the males one was a variate specially marked, about half-way between the F1 type and the Mallard parent.

  11. Affected males may transmit the defect to their sons but not to their daughters: but daughters of affected persons transmit the defect frequently to their sons.

  12. He considers it is quite as conceivable that selection should operate to pick out inconspicuously coloured females as that selection of brilliantly coloured males should bring about an addition to the female type.

  13. Under unfavourable conditions males are developed as well as females by parthenogenesis, but the males arise from eggs which undergo partial reduction of chromosomes, only one or two being separated instead of half the whole number.

  14. There are distinct though slight differences in the genital appendages of the males in the two species.

  15. In the F1 generation the males were horned, the females hornless.

  16. In 1625 the population stood at fifty-five persons (thirty-six males and nineteen females).

  17. The census of January, 1625 lists thirty persons, twenty-five males and five women, at "Mulburie Island.

  18. Three adult males they were that wanted you and one of them none too kind or soft or gentle, at that.

  19. If any more males call me, I may not be in until morning.

  20. There were three males seated on a low branch, and hopping slowly backwards and forwards, near to one another, as though engaged in a kind of dance.

  21. Sometimes two males close with each other and fight, mounting upwards in the struggle, as insects are often seen to do when similarly engaged, and then separating hastily and darting back to their work.

  22. The successful debut of the winged males and females depends likewise on the workers.

  23. The swarming or exodus of the winged males and females of the Sauba ant takes place in January and February, that is, at the commencement of the rainy season.

  24. A strange kind of wood-cricket is found in this neighbourhood, the males of which produce a very loud and not unmusical noise by rubbing together the overlapping edges of their wing-cases.

  25. The preference of males over females in succession was totally unknown to the laws of Rome.

  26. Its modern signification is the custom of partition of property among males alone, or the greatest share to the oldest son.

  27. The Salic law had not preference to one sex over the other--purely economical law which gave houses and lands to males who should dwell there, and consequently to whom it would be of most service.

  28. Blackstone, although admitting that such views did not pertain in Rome, yet speaks of males as "the worthier of blood.

  29. The elder Disraeli says: "Warton, too, has observed that the style of friendship between males in the reign of Elizabeth would not be tolerated at the present day.

  30. Luther declared that priests believed themselves to be as superior to the laity in general as males were held superior to females.

  31. Suppose she was to tell her aunt quietly but firmly about the parasitic males of degraded crustacea.

  32. There are no males at men to stare; A man scores always, everywhere.

  33. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them.

  34. Amaiek, he took the word to be zakar, instead of zeker, and contented himself with destroying the males of the army and keeping for himself the spoil.

  35. This man and Young were now the sole survivors out of the fifteen males that had landed upon the island.

  36. Pretty soon he repeated the strain once or twice in a softer voice, and I glanced up instinctively to see if a female were with him; but instead, there were two males sitting within a yard of each other.

  37. But on the following morning I saw four others, all of them males in full plumage, and two of them in song.

  38. The body is glabrous, but there are traces of hair about the armpits and other parts, and adult males possess sometimes an excessively slight moustache, and about a dozen hairs on the tip of the chin.

  39. These organizations had several thousand members, at least half the active males left in the state.

  40. Meunier, quoting Spollongain, states that the swordfish does not approach the coast of Sicily except in the season of reproduction; the males are then seen pursuing the females.

  41. The study of adult males in spring is greatly aided by the fact that each species, with some exceptions, has one or more patches of color peculiar to itself.

  42. The males sing frequently from their perch on the topmost twig of a spruce tree, thus misleading one as to the whereabouts of the female and nest.

  43. The males and females were put into different compartments, though this was not done out of any regard to decency, but merely for convenience.

  44. Both males and females were there--for both had succeeded in making their way on deck--but amid that thick swarm their sex could not be distinguished.

  45. New gratings were to be made--instead of those destroyed during the chase--and bulkheads were to be strengthened and repaired, for it was intended to partition off the males from the females.

  46. In certain gall-flies (Cynipidae) no males are known to exist at all, and the species seems to be preserved entirely by successive parthenogenetic generations.

  47. Nature, by making the number of males and females nearly equal, indicates it as natural.

  48. The duty of restraining the passions is largely recognised in the female, though the males are only restricted by the prohibition of adultery.


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