Example sentences for: divorcée

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

  • Chapter 6 discusses, under A Few More Words, a number of suffixes ( -trix, -ess , etc.) and words ( hero/ heroine, alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae , etc.) that apparently offend the authors: they campaign for the elimination of la différence . My own attitude is that I find such terms not in the least denigrating: Why should a woman object to being called a heroine, a divorcée, or an actress any more than being called a female or a woman?

  • Then, to the astonishment of the local populace, the Duke of Windsor, having given up his throne for an American divorcée, was named governor of the little colony in 1940.

  • The cover story gushes about gay divorcée Diana: She's freer, happier, and more devoted to charity than she was as Princess of Wales.

  • (Or so the petulant divorcée claimed when Judge Weissberg rejected her request for monthly child-support payments of $132,000 from former husband Ron Perelman, ordering her to scrimp by on $12,825 a month for their 4-year-old daughter, Caleigh.


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