Example sentences for: divorcing

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

  • Prudie once housed the jewelry of a divorcing friend and was very uncomfortable.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.

  • If Prudie sounds lenient regarding divorcing, it is because she herself has lost more than one husband ...

  • "As Eileen [Morris' wife, who is now divorcing him] and my therapist, Dr. Elizabeth Hauser, softened my rage and brought me inner peace for the first time in my life, I decided to abandon negative advertising as a métier."


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