Example sentences for: betrothed

How can you use “betrothed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Arranged marriage is alive and well in the Indian communities of Queens, says a profile of an imaginative young woman reluctantly steeling herself to accept her appointed betrothed.

  • Gesenius-Robinson, by the way, translates bethulah as “a virgin pure and unspotted,” “a virgin just married,” and “a young spouse” (see Joel 1:8, where bethulah is translated by the Septuagint as nymphe, “a betrothed woman, a bride,” “a recently married woman, young wife”-- Thayer).


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