wedlock

How To Use wedlock In A Sentence

• People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
• There are 5 million couples living out of wedlock in France, and 42% of firstborn children are born outside of marriage.
• And then on Halloween, the day after Palin's disgust for various members of the Alaska media bubbled over and caused her, the mother of a daughter who bore a son out of wedlock, to ironically describe these reporters as "corrupt bastards," Palin fumed on Fox News that reporters citing anonymous Republican sources criticizing her in a recent Politico article should "man up" and "cite themselves" so she could publicly debate them. Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment
• I wondered why she decided to bring up her son by herself, as in l967 it was considered something of a scandal having a child out of wedlock and coming from a middle-class Army family?
• In the late eighteenth century, physicians like the German doctor Willhelm Gottfried Ploucquet permitted themselves to palpate the bellies of pregnant women—but only those who were pregnant out of wedlock, poor and desperate, who traded such indignities for a bowl of soup or a place to stay for the night. Origins
• ONCE, women were expected to tame their man into wedlock. Times, Sunday Times
• Unlike the synonym, MAMzer, BENKert connotes love child, not one merely born out of wedlock.
• The court filiated the child born out of wedlock
• This is why it is that, when others boast of national achievement, the American just points to the flag and bluntly says to all the world, 'Match this if you can, the peerless story of human freedom, of intellectual progress, of great-hearted, broad-minded development told in the mystic wedlock of the Stars and Stripes.' Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
• Holidays together ought to be obligatory for couples thinking of wedlock.