How to Use unmarried in a Sentence

unmarried

adjective

• And who's to blame for the rate of unmarried childbearing in the U.S.?
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2022
• There’s the stuck-in-a-rut unmarried woman who cooks up a crazy plan.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 4 May 2018
• There is a song about the girl on her last night as an unmarried woman.
  — James Bash | , oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The last time brothers Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy went on tour, in 2016, both men were unmarried.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Many of these adults now choose to be single and unmarried.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 28 June 2023
• Fifty years ago, one in 10 births were to unmarried women.
  — Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 29 June 2019
• Just over 72% of unmarried mothers in the U.S. are employed outside the home.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• The shops have been among the few public places where unmarried young men and women can mingle and flirt.
  — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• According to Xie, bridesmaids need to be unmarried and cannot be taller than the bride.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 22 July 2022
• For decades, the bones of children lay near a home for unmarried mothers and their babies.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Four unmarried children will live with him and his wife.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• Her parents were teenagers when she was born, and unmarried.
  — TheWeek, 23 Jan. 2020
• Why, the doctor asked, would an unmarried woman need such a thing?
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
• The share of births to unmarried couples has increased from nearly 40% to 70%.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• The divorcées end up on one side, the unmarried women on the other.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• Roberts was born to a young, unmarried mother in Hong Kong in the 1960s, and spent the beginning of his life in an orphanage.
  — Kristy Totten, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• Forty percent of all births and 70% of births among Black people are to unmarried women.
  — George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
• To be considered a child, the person must be unmarried and under 21 years of age.
  — Julie Watson, ajc, 10 May 2023
• The largest percent of unmarried 40-year-olds held only a high school diploma or less (33%).
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 5 July 2023
• Still, for the unmarried among them, the 2021 wedding season has imparted its fair share of lessons.
  — Ashely Fetters Washington Post, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Wearing a white scarf on the Sabbath, while unmarried, was enough for Shyne to elicit the ire of lighter-skinned worshippers.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2022
• And Heather Gay is a divorcee who bristles at the constraints put on her as an unmarried woman.
  — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Suarez says that being unmarried is what gave her the freedom to go, since divorce wasn’t legal in 1960s Chile.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2024
• And the next day, more trains came in from the surrounding region full of young, unmarried Jewish women.
  — National Geographic, 14 Jan. 2020
• This is the highest share of unmarried couples recorded, the report said.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• Because the space was so cramped, Huie’s two brothers slept at the village shrine; his two sisters spent their nights at a home for unmarried girls.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• There's also been a recent rise in the share of unmarried couples buying homes.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Dear Amy: Count me with all of the people who don’t like your advice to allow unmarried adults to sleep together in your house.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2024
• Heather Gay is a divorcee who bristles at the constraints put on her as an unmarried woman.
  — Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
• For girls and women in twentieth-century Ireland, to be unmarried and pregnant was akin to a crime against the Catholic state, and little mercy was shown even to the very young or to victims of rape or abuse.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025