Sample Sentences forbetrothed (editor-reviewed)
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She was betrothed on the day of her birth.betrothed = promised to marry
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Last of all came a little hump-backed, wizened old man in whom she recognized with a shudder the new Grand Vizier and her own betrothed husband, Ahoshta Tarkaan himself. (source)betrothed = person she is to marry
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Nothing about his betrothed pleased him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the "unpleasant" in which they had both been brought up. (source)betrothed = the person he promised to marry
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And you, dog, away with you, you're scaring my betrothed.† (source)
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She glanced back at me with a panicked expression, then went to meet her betrothed.† (source)
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Our guests will be here for the coming weeks, to properly honor the prince and his betrothed.† (source)
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This is how I became betrothed to Huang Taitai's son, who I later discovered was just a baby, one year younger than I. His name was Tyan-yu—tyan for "sky," because he was so important, and yu, meaning "leftovers," because when he was born his father was very sick and his family thought he might die.† (source)
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Israel agreed, but asked that the betrothal document be kept a secret for the time being.† (source)
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We would get into two groups, each supposed to be a family, then each family would have to betroth a girl so we could perform a marriage ceremony.† (source)
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From Coritus came Acron to the fight, Who left his spouse betroth'd, and unconsummate night.† (source)
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I have heard that some girls have had to give up their betrothals because their families can no longer provide dowries.† (source)
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What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?† (source)
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And so, since a sunrise hour on a chilly Mexico City morning in early December, Perry had been prowling about the unheated hotel room assembling and packing his possessions-stealthily, lest he waken the two sleeping shapes lying on one of the room's twin beds: Dick, and the younger of his betrotheds, Inez.† (source)
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Kisses, father of Theano, his mother, brought up the child, and when he reached the stage of promising manhood tried to hold him there, betrothing to him a daughter.† (source)
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After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.† (source)
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It was only after the betrothal that she'd learned his name.† (source)
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