Words similar to wedlock

Example sentences for: wedlock

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

I think you are making a mistake to equate distaste for wedlock with libertinism.
(His older son, the one born out of wedlock, got neither.)
One misstep in the Post's sum-up of Quayle's career: It cites his Murphy Brown speech about out of wedlock births as an embarrassing incident on a par with the potato spelling episode.
Let us limit our thinking, for the time being, to the most modest claim—that all individuals, black and white, men and women, gay and straight, born in wedlock and out of wedlock, should be treated equally under the law.
The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.