Used in a Sentence

male

How to use male in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for male.

Editorial note

HN is the whitest malest forum I'm a member of.

Examples18
Definitions6
Parts of speech2

Quick take

an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of male gathered in one view.

noun

an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

noun

a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

noun

the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for male.

noun

an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

noun

a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

noun

the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

adjective

being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree"

adjective

for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys; "the male lead"; "the male population"

Example sentences

1

HN is the whitest malest forum I'm a member of.

2

Maybe the guy was just bored or thought that female worker was beautiful.

3

This will have huge ripple effects on the male status hierarchy.

4

What just blows my mind, is that Adria keeps referring to this as an issue against females.

5

If male, he's just another entitled fuck looking for an advantage.

6

I don't think enough emphasis is put in these studies on the rise of cheap entertainment for bored male youth.

7

I'm assuming some HNers are soon to arrive saying things like "why does it matter that a founder is a female?

8

Isn't it sexism all the same", "imagine if someone make a 'male founders conference'?

9

This event is only trying inspire women that founding startups does need to be stigmatized as a male club.

10

It was like the wind was sucked out of the room behind the barrier, but the floor was so loud only the two all-male teams heard the question.

11

Most types of ambitious male business people are a lot more vulgar and perverse than the technologists.

12

I, as a male, try to avoid staring at another female because I fear someone like Horvath accuses me of sexism.

13

While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking.

14

I'm a recent Lebanese immigrant to Canada, male, in my early twenties, and to top it off I work on encryption software.

15

For males, competence was correlated with likeability, but for females it was anticorrelated, even though the resumes were identical.

16

Second, it attempts to not only target an individual as sexist, but often the male gender as a whole as being part of a "misogynistic boys-club", in turn implying that masculine identity itself is inherently wrong.

17

Their research demonstrates that both women subscribers and female avatar characters operated by male subscribers in EVE are biased toward a slightly lower chance of success in competition with their male counterparts.

18

If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this is the most important line in the post:> What you end up with is the situation where you, as a conference goer, walk up to a booth and, because youre no stranger to how this works, ignore any attractive woman and talk directly to a male at the booth.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use male in a sentence?

HN is the whitest malest forum I'm a member of.

What does male mean?

an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

What part of speech is male?

male is commonly used as noun, adjective.