How to Use conjugal in a Sentence
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will likely receive a conjugal coat of arms in a few years, which shows their shields displayed side by side.
—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2018
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Each partner turned out to have strongly different views about the course their conjugal life would take, says Schiller.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021
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Most concerning to the judge and prosecutors was the conjugal visit allowed by one of the agents.
—Scott Glover, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge received their conjugal coat of arms (below) two years after their wedding.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 May 2018
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The design bears a resemblance to her conjugal cypher with her husband.
—Eileen Reslen, Town & Country, 26 July 2018
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In this episode! Veronica and Archie had a locker room conjugal visit!
—Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Nov. 2018
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Coffee’ Here’s pop-R&B from the distant era — before last month? — of conjugal business as usual.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
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The winning team gets to have their wives tested, and then essentially a conjugal visit.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020
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There were regular conjugal visits, and a steady flow of dinner parties among the S.S. officers and their wives.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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For all its reputation as a nation of romance, gallantry and love, France has one of the highest rates of conjugal killings in Western Europe.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
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Perhaps an allusion to Diana will appear on Harry's conjugal coat of arms as well.
—Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2018
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My daughter, Alia, the happy outcome of a conjugal visit before such meetings were disallowed during the low point of the tough-on-crime Nineties, lives in San Francisco.
—Kenneth E. Hartman, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
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It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal… but also procreative.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2012
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When Lilly gets pregnant after a conjugal visit, and the gang embarks on a course of escalating violence, Taylor is forced to question his choices, and to make the hardest one.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2022
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Gama was accused of using conjugal visits to help coordinate the assault.
—Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
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On Wednesday, relatives said, wives and girlfriends of the inmates were permitted conjugal visits.
—Ana Vanessa Herrero and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
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Married women were rewarded for good behavior with conjugal visits from their husbands, along with showers, towels, and two hours in a bedroom.
—Bloomberg.com, 1 July 2020
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As Cosmo UK notes, every member of the royal family has their own official monogram (or royal cypher, as they're called), and each royal couple has a conjugal cypher representing them as a pair.
—Lindsey V Thompson, Teen Vogue, 27 July 2018
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In every book, contempt and hostility between the heroine and hero morphed, at the last minute, into an outpouring of mutual desire resulting in a conjugal union.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
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Plus, Empress Elizabeth blamed Catherine for not performing her conjugal duties.
—Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2019
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Chaylla is fighting to free herself from a violent conjugal relationship.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
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Frenchly, however, the non-existent man was permitted conjugal visits during his imprisonment, one of which resulted in Edmond.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
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Unmarried seniors, for instance, can sometimes be considered conjugal partners.
—Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
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Bunny harbors the transactional secret behind conjugal excess enjoyed by an unconscious concubine.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 Sep. 2022
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