matrimony

in a sentence

She lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail.  (source) Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat, 1926

" 'We have come together in the presence of God to witness and bless the joining together of this man and this woman in Holy Matrimony,' " he began, and I noticed that Hurd's was packed—there was standing-room only.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

There's a paper that says Marriage Certificate, that Malachy McCourt and Angela Sheehan were joined in Holy Matrimony on the twenty-eighth of March, 1930.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Mentally and spiritually dead, his mother had been handcuffed to his father by matrimony.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

But various paw injuries hinted at matrimonial strife.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

You're the one who is matrimonially obsessed.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

But it turns out Axelroot could collect medals galore in the department of avoiding holy matrimony.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

She said, "It isn't for me to say anything like this, I know, and of course the papers nowadays are full of caste-no-bar—divorcees-welcome matrimonial ads, but it seems to me that once you let one tradition go, all the other traditions crumble."†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize.†  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912

I require and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts will be disclosed, that if either of you know of any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

"Flom's early specialty was proxy fights, and that was not what we did, just like we don't do matrimonial work," said Robert Rif kind, a longtime partner at Cravath, Swaine and Moore.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.†  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

As a virgin on the edge of spinsterhood who has been shipped halfway around the world to marry a man she doesn't love, she has some very understandable anxieties about matrimony and sex.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003