MARRIAGE in a Sentence

Learn MARRIAGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

344 example sentences for MARRIAGE, such as:

1. I haven't thought about marriage yet.
2. You and I are interwoven in a marriage.
3. She had seldom been there since her marriage.
4. Their marriage went downhill after the first child was born.
5. Jackie and Bill are still trying to patch up their marriage.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARRIAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
marriage
 n.  the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
 n.  two people who are married to each other
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Such a marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2  I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my enquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
3  Over thought and religion; drink; dress; manners; marriage too, I wield my truncheon.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you, and to express his hope that you will take it into your favourable consideration.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
5  She had seldom been there since her marriage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  What you know of the story of my marriage, he soon knew, just as well.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
7  I have no further trust, than that I know something of her character and her marriage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
8  She seems a minor, and must therefore be at our royal disposal in marriage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple function of sex.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  You and I are interwoven in a marriage.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became utterly blank and nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  He told them about his marriage, and they were suitably interested.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  It was the natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  He only conditioned that the marriage should not take place before his return, which he was again looking eagerly forward to.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
16  The book places a high moral value on marriage and the family unit.
17  Jackie and Bill are still trying to patch up their marriage.
18  Both parties seemed to have a rather clinical view of the breakup of their marriage.
19  You can't just walk away from a marriage at the first sign of a problem.
20  To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
21  In the Western world, there is a different attitude to marriage.
22  People whose marriage has ended often battle over the children.
23  Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
24  If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
25  In the past, a woman needed to be chaste to make a good marriage.
26  In retrospect, I think my marriage was doomed from the beginning.
27  My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
28  I haven't thought about marriage yet.
29  Their marriage went downhill after the first child was born.
30  I know you both well and feel that your marriage will last for a long time.