How to Use adultery in a Sentence

adultery

noun

• He found out that his wife had committed adultery.
• She accused her husband of adultery.
• In 1970, Myra filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and abuse.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
• Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• But the Bible has many, many more verses about adultery.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020
• More glaring than the drug problem in the movie, though, is the adultery problem.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
• In 1928, Cecil served more than six months in prison for adultery.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2020
• 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
• In the Gospel, a group of Pharisees have gathered to stone a woman accused of adultery.
  — Annie Geng, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• They were accused of adultery, theft and running away from home.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
• Men have been lashed in the local sports stadium for adultery and theft.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• 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
• Desi’s adultery, which Lucy always knew about it, was part of it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• In the series, Margaret isn’t just accused of adultery, she is accused of theft, drugs, and forgery.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
• One of them said, the sixth commandment is, thou shalt not admit adultery.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• If a married person was involved, it would be cause for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
  — Washington Post, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Others accused Jackson of adultery and his wife, Rachel, of bigamy.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• For them, adventure wasn’t the main reason for their adultery.
  — Karin Jones, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Allegations of adultery—both his and hers—met him at both ends.
  — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2019
• 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
• 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
• This is adultery, plain and simple, and your acceptance of it is immoral.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Laws criminalizing adultery are on the books in a handful of other states but are rarely enforced.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024