betrothed

How To Use betrothed In A Sentence

• Helping him to do so, meanwhile, is Proteus' feisty betrothed, Marina, who gives as good as she gets in helping to ensure Sinbad doesn't stray from his path, while winning over the respect of his crew.
• She was betrothed to her cousin at an early age.
• You still don't understand who it is I am betrothed to.
• The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
• I was betrothed to their eldest daughter named Emma.
• While asked to mediate between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoulême, he married the Angoulême heiress Isabella, who had been betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan.
• How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
• Especially mind yourself with the King's betrothed!
• She is scheming for Aimee and me to be betrothed before the season is over.
• They become betrothed, but the burgomaster Ghysbrecht, together with Gerard's scheming brothers and his outraged father, prevent the marriage and succeed in having the young man imprisoned.