How to Use marriage in a Sentence

marriage

noun
  • They have a very happy marriage.
  • Many friends and relatives were present at their marriage.
  • It was his second marriage.
  • She has old-fashioned ideas about marriage.
  • Most of all, though, the marriages of Taylor and Cartwright and the Lallys have fallen apart.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • Lauren Goode: This is the kind of thing that will save lives and save marriages.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Lynch has one adult child from each of his first three marriages.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In about a third of marriages – 29% – husbands and wives earn roughly the same.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Taylor’s many marriages, and the way she was portrayed by the media, forms the spine of Burstein’s film.
    Marisa Guthrie, WWD, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Three of Kody's marriages imploded in less than a year and a half.
    Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The number of marriages took a dive around the start of the pandemic, numbers show.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • But such child marriages of girls might be state-sanctioned soon.
    Stella Martany and Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Both marriages would end in divorce, and Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • In it, the wives offered a glimpse into their strict and constrained lives and marriages.
    Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Maybe that’s why there’s so much signage on the doors around me attesting to marriages spent on the sea.
    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And there’s divorces and marriages and babies; a lot of stuff happened in these 12 years.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • And there’s divorces and marriages and babies; a lot of stuff happened in these 12 years.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • The Carters credit their marriage's longevity to their faith.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
  • By contrast, 60% of second marriages and 73% of third marriages end the same way.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the film, Bill and Ted are middle-aged dads struggling with their career and their marriages.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Janelle, Meri and Christine have since ended their marriages to Kody.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The hack caused marriages to explode, ruined lives — and even ended some.
    Lexi Carson, Variety, 16 May 2024
  • The bleak statistic that half of marriages end in divorce has been in the zeitgeist for so long now that it’s become a punch line.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • There are no children from any of the marriages, although his third wife had a son, and my grandson helped support the child.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
  • What are your thoughts on wedding gifts for second, third or fourth marriages?
    Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • About her own wild love stories, and her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Murdoch, 93, has six children from three of his five marriages.
    Hannah Miller, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2024
  • On camera, the friends, however, spoke in more than one scene about struggles in each of their marriages.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • The hit reality dating show has led to many marriages, but many, many more heartbreaks since its premiere in 2020.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Jason — one of John's four children from his two marriages — has often spoken of his father's legacy, too.
    Kate Hogan, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024

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