nuptial

in a sentence

"It's called Nuptial Law," Klaus said, "and I learned many interesting things while reading it."†  (source) Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning, 1999

Afterward, I was never entirely sure why Will changed his mind about Alicia and Rupert's nuptials.†  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

On the first page was a single column of newsprint, headed WILKES-BERRYMAN NUPTIALS.†  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

This was the great nuptial gift from the U.S. to the Congo—financing the construction of the Inga-Shaba.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

Sure enough, there's Caesar Flickerman, speaking before a standing-room-only crowd in front of the Training Center, talking to an appreciative crowd about my upcoming nuptials.†  (source) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

Here's Nuptial.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, Just Listen, 2006

A crisis in a heroine's life could be made to coincide with hailstones, gales and thunder, whereas nuptials were generally blessed with good light and soft breezes.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

At five o'clock in the morning, Blanca awoke with an upset stomach from the cloyingly sweet smell of the flowers with which her father had adorned the nuptial chamber.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

Edward's family and my family were taking care of the nuptials together without my having to do or know or think too hard about any of it.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, 2008

He had been married scarcely two months, but she realized at once that things were not going well in the nuptial bed, and she had the delicious pleasure of vengeance fulfilled.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

When he was rescued on the morning of the following day, Morton plumb forgot about his single-celled nuptials and went back to his daytime job tasting the contents of open pop bottles for backwash and cigarette butts.†  (source) Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, 1993

Of all the events of Elder Sister's marriage, what I remember most is when she returned after a nuptial visit to her husband's home the following spring.†  (source) Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005

But so long as we are discussing marriage, why is it that I hear nothing of my sister's impending nuptials?†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000