How to Use adultery in a Sentence
adultery
noun- He found out that his wife had committed adultery.
- She accused her husband of adultery.
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In 1970, Myra filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and abuse.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
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Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery.
—Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
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But the Bible has many, many more verses about adultery.
—Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020
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More glaring than the drug problem in the movie, though, is the adultery problem.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
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In 1928, Cecil served more than six months in prison for adultery.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2020
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On The Crown, Parker's wife, Eileen, uses the letters to file for a divorce on the grounds of adultery.
—Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2018
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In the Gospel, a group of Pharisees have gathered to stone a woman accused of adultery.
—Annie Geng, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
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They were accused of adultery, theft and running away from home.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
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Men have been lashed in the local sports stadium for adultery and theft.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
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The Bureau added that Bateman made the girls recite that there was no adultery, darkness or guilt in the acts.
—Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
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Desi’s adultery, which Lucy always knew about it, was part of it.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
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Until 1922, a man could divorce his wife for adultery alone but the same was not true for women.
—Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2020
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In the series, Margaret isn’t just accused of adultery, she is accused of theft, drugs, and forgery.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
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One of them said, the sixth commandment is, thou shalt not admit adultery.
—Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
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If a married person was involved, it would be cause for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
—Washington Post, 18 May 2021
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If an accuser fails to meet the high standard of proof for rape, she can then be accused of adultery.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
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Others accused Jackson of adultery and his wife, Rachel, of bigamy.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
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For them, adventure wasn’t the main reason for their adultery.
—Karin Jones, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
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Theory of the case: Greg and Quentin hatched a plan to trap Tanya into adultery and nullify their prenup.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
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Allegations of adultery—both his and hers—met him at both ends.
—Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2019
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The sonnets appended to the sermons are a gloss of Psalm 51, in which King David repents of his adultery with Bathsheba.
—Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2019
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The Taliban forced women to cover their faces in public, buried them up to their necks and stoned them to death after claims of adultery.
—Frida Ghitis, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
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This is adultery, plain and simple, and your acceptance of it is immoral.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
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The ministry presided over the amputation of thieves’ hands and the stoning deaths of women found guilty of adultery.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
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The two and a half centuries that followed The Princess of Clèves constituted the great period of the adultery novel.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 2 May 2019
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Each month, the high court hears appeals from a network of 16 lower courts in the camp, about cases ranging from assault and theft to adultery.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2017
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Laws criminalizing adultery are on the books in a handful of other states but are rarely enforced.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
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Colorado and New Hampshire are also in the process of revisiting adultery misdemeanor laws in their own states.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
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