CONJUGAL in a Sentence

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Ah," said the count, "that is a most conjugal reservation; I recollect that at Rome you said something of a projected marriage.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONJUGAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
Conjugal
 a.  of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband
Classic Sentence:
1  She has aired in detail all those incidents of her conjugal life which are usually buried down in the deepest grave of matrimonial silence, between married couples.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  In their house I shall call to mind the conjugal manners of Mansfield Parsonage with respect.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  Ah," said the count, "that is a most conjugal reservation; I recollect that at Rome you said something of a projected marriage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
5  As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
6  Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42
7  His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
9  But the ends of matrimony requiring no such power in the husband, the condition of conjugal society put it not in him, it being not at all necessary to that state.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
Example Sentence:
1  I shall show the higher part intellect plays in conjugal love, the control, restraint, forbearance, sacrifice.