Example sentences for: out-of-wedlock

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

  • Black employment, home ownership, academic achievement, and college enrollment are up; out-of-wedlock births, violent crime, poverty, and welfare enrollment are down.

  • Many observers expected liberalized abortion and contraception to lead to fewer out-of-wedlock births.

  • The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.

  • Since 1990, teen-age out-of-wedlock births have actually decreased very slightly.

  • Meanwhile, fertility rates for married women of both races declined rapidly, making the out-of-wedlock birth ratio even larger.


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