Example sentences for: shotgun-marriage

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

  • As a result, the rise in welfare benefits in the 1960s may have resulted in a decline in the black shotgun-marriage rate, and thus, in an increase in out-of-wedlock births.

  • The black shotgun-marriage ratio began to fall earlier than the white ratio and shows no significant change in trend around 1970.

  • The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising.


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