Example sentences for: matrimony

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

  • This observation used to dismay the late Nobel laureate George Stigler: He maintained that the grand institution of matrimony is demeaned by those who can't be bothered to negotiate its details.

  • As a teen-ager, Clare herself was given to pronouncements like: "Matrimony!

  • My favorites among these, which are not found in the present work, are tally and leman , which mean a `person with whom one cohabits without benefit of matrimony.

  • The chain of hyperlinks to timeless matrimony begins with Cupid's Network, which will direct you to the perfect match (please specify ethnicity and religion).

  • There is, for example, no uncertainly about the derivations of matrimony and mother , both from the Indo-European * matter meaning `mother,' the former through Latin and Norman French and the latter through a Germanic root.


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