Sample sentences for MATRIMONY

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Definition

the state of being a married

They have moved in together, joined bank accounts, and are trying to have children, but have no interest in matrimony.

matrimony = marriage

They were joined in holy matrimony.

matrimony = marriage

Unless you had matrimonial plans concerning Miss Hill.
Christopher Paul Curtis -- Bud, Not Buddy

matrimonial = marriage

She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Sweat

matrimonial = marriage

Mentally and spiritually dead, his mother had been handcuffed to his father by matrimony.
Stephen King -- The Shining
It seemed to her that only now she fully measured the great undertaking of matrimony.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
He taught his tribes how to fish with nets, to hunt and to rear domestic animals, divided the people into clans, and instituted matrimony.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
But in regard to matrimony, you are now at the most dangerous period of your life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
So much that you would continue on with your matrimony just for their sake.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
To give me back the letters and any papers you may have that breathe of matrimony or worse.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Let her keep to her own matrimonial projects—if she has any.'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
I did not want to be associated with the issue of a campesina who had had no respect for the holy banns of matrimony or for the good name of Mirabal.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
In 1940, my grandparents were united in holy matrimony.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
What did he say about the holy state of matrimony?
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
I'd just like to know my matrimonial prospects.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
"We are gathered here," Grant Cowper said cheerfully, "to join these two people in the holy bonds of matrimony.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
"A more determined enemy of matrimony than you I never saw," said Sergey Ivanovitch.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Later I found out Payasa ended up pregnant and in a prison of matrimony somewhere.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Really I like him extremely; is there not also a matrimonial engagement contemplated for him?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

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