marital

adjective

mar·i·tal ˈmer-ə-tᵊl

ˈma-rə-

Synonyms of marital next

: of or relating to marriage or the married state

marital vows

archaic : of or relating to a husband and his role in marriage

maritally

ˈmer-ə-tᵊl-ē

ˈma-rə-

adverb

Examples of marital in a Sentence

They've been having marital problems. neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got

Recent Examples on the Web The older women may have passed through their marital storms, but Sofi is still in the middle of hers. —

Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023 Although a major plotline in Season 1 concerned the marital difficulties of Meredith and her husband, Seth, that’s now a thing of the past. —

Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023 Rumors of marital trouble began swirling back in March, when Asghari, an an Iranian-American model, actor, and fitness trainer, was spotted without his wedding ring. —

Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2023 In 2011, the Vancouver native made his way to Toronto for the premieres of Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz — which focused on marital challenges for Rogen and onscreen wife Michelle Williams — and Jonathan Levine’s 50/50. —

Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023 Their respective marital problems are less to do with their spouses — stable and steady in Alice’s case, necessarily no-nonsense in Mathieu’s — and more to do with their own roving, restless sense of interior discontent. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023 For married people, most states recognize the concept of marital presumption, which presumes that a child born to a married woman is the biological child of her husband, according to the American Bar Association. —

Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023 More:Long-time affair leads to post-mortem drama More:A family loss leads to a marital move Dear Amy: My adult stepchildren routinely exclude me. —

Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2023 Become a Subscriber Eliot’s own marital trajectory was anomalous, and not just by the standards of her time. —

Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023 See More

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