How to Use groomsman in a Sentence

groomsman

noun
  • He asked his two closest college friends to be his groomsmen.
  • Friends like Chad Carter, a groomsman, have helped to fill in the blanks.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Groom's Room is a space the venue provides to the groom and his groomsmen to get ready in.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • When the couple tied the knot, Abloh was by his friend's side as a groomsman.
    Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The bride wears a flower crown, the groomsmen wear suspenders.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • Since the couple did not have their bridesmaids and groomsmen with them, the ship crew walked with Ms. Cheng to the church.
    Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • When a good friend and groomsman had too much to drink at wedding No.
    Sarah Levy, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The groomsmen matched the bridesmaids' white dresses with ivory ties.
    Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Three years later, the dog walked down the aisle with one of my groomsmen at our wedding.
    Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Junior groomsman was Frank Dixon of Seattle, cousin of the groom.
    Cary Jenkins, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • One friend said Williams could no longer be a groomsman in his wedding.
    Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • News, there are six more groomsmen who have yet to be revealed.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Roker's 18-year-old son Nick was in the wedding as a groomsman.
    Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Turner’s son-in-law Rob served as his best man and Nist’s son-in-law Matt was a groomsman.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The bride wished to have J join the ceremony, so the llama stood in as a groomsman.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • The owl then made a beeline directly for the groomsman, knocking him out of his chair in the process.
    Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Slater was a groomsman in O’Connell’s wedding, and their wives are close with each other, too.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2022
  • In California style, the groomsman donned black suit pants and white dress shirts with the sleeves rolled up.
    Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2022
  • Of course, Nick and Kevin Jonas were also on hand, serving as groomsmen.
    Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 2 May 2019
  • Johnny and Matthew were in town to serve as groomsmen for their sister Katie’s wedding, set to take place the next day.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
  • News reports the bride’s sister served as her maid of honor, and that Pratt had nine groomsmen.
    Vogue, 14 June 2019
  • William has asked five friends to be groomsmen at the wedding – some are from childhood and some from college.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2024
  • William has asked five friends to be groomsmen at the wedding — some are from childhood and some from college.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The Children as Bridal Party Move over, bridesmaids and groomsmen and make room for the children.
    Marianne Rohrlich, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Page Boys Like bridesmaids, men in the United Kingdom tend not to have groomsmen.
    Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 9 May 2018
  • The groom would spend the whole meal turned away chatting with his groomsmen, while the bride looked the other way staring into space.
    Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Allodi’s groomsmen suited up and wore ties and bowties by The Tie Bar.
    Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Suggest each groomsman have an extra shirt and tie on hand.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The groomsmen even appeared to have stayed in character.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The crash happened one day before they were supposed to be groomsmen in their sister Katie's wedding.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024

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