Examples of wedlock in a Sentence
joined the happy couple in holy wedlock
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Garvey fathered two children out of wedlock in 1989, and married a third woman that year.
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David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Apr. 2024
Months later, the company behind the National Enquirer made a $30,000 payment to a doorman who was shopping around a false story that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock, according to prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2024
In 2018, Pusha T lyrically outed Drake as having parented a son out of wedlock.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Elsewhere, Claude and Angot’s mother, who had Christine out of wedlock and fought to get her father to recognize his child in a legal sense, are both similarly upbraided for misspeaking about Christine’s trauma in subtle ways, or for not being sympathetic in the right way.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Lessons in Chemistry tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, a gifted chemist living in 1950s America who is fired from her job as a lab tech after getting pregnant out of wedlock.
—Jace Lacob, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
Maria, meanwhile, also had a secret — a child born out of wedlock.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
People of a certain age in Ireland remember the shocking outlines of a national scandal: the young American woman and the bishop, the hypocrisy of the clergyman, the baby born out of wedlock and without a present father, the woman’s notorious appearance on an Irish late night talk show.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Teach that conceiving children out of wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents and society.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 2 Jan. 2024
David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 23 Apr. 2024
Months later, the company behind the National Enquirer made a $30,000 payment to a doorman who was shopping around a false story that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock, according to prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2024
In 2018, Pusha T lyrically outed Drake as having parented a son out of wedlock.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Elsewhere, Claude and Angot’s mother, who had Christine out of wedlock and fought to get her father to recognize his child in a legal sense, are both similarly upbraided for misspeaking about Christine’s trauma in subtle ways, or for not being sympathetic in the right way.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Lessons in Chemistry tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, a gifted chemist living in 1950s America who is fired from her job as a lab tech after getting pregnant out of wedlock.
—Jace Lacob, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
Maria, meanwhile, also had a secret — a child born out of wedlock.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
People of a certain age in Ireland remember the shocking outlines of a national scandal: the young American woman and the bishop, the hypocrisy of the clergyman, the baby born out of wedlock and without a present father, the woman’s notorious appearance on an Irish late night talk show.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
Teach that conceiving children out of wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents and society.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 2 Jan. 2024
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“Wedlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wedlock. Accessed 5 May. 2024.
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wedlock
noun
wed·lock
ˈwed-ˌläk 
: the state of being married
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