How to Use by marriage in a Sentence

by marriage

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• The Bobcats' head coach Brent Vigen is Sansted's uncle by marriage.
  — Ren Clayton, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
• The complaint didn't make clear whether Wilkinson and Garcia-Vallejo were related by marriage through relatives or by blood.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
• Catherine Zeta Jones, who was related to Tyler by marriage, also shared a tribute on Instagram.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 July 2026
• That condition was little changed by marriage or the couple’s first child, born within a week of Mary Kay’s seventeenth birthday, in 1935, or their second, born the following year.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
• Yasmin has chosen the questionable protection offered by marriage to Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington), the heir to an ancient estate.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
• In plays that feature women protagonists, the experience of feeling trapped is a recurring theme, whether characters are hemmed in by marriage, motherhood, gender roles, race, economic status or any number of societal norms.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• Zara Tindall took style cues from her cousin by marriage, Kate Middleton, at the annual Cheltenham Festival in England on Tuesday.
  — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
• And now, 40 years later, two key players in the Iran/Contra controversy – Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall -- have been joined by marriage.
  — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
• Kelli O'Hara plays Aurora Fane on The Gilded Age, Agnes' niece by marriage who helps Marian Brook (also a relation of Agnes') break into society.
  — Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• Robert Anderson, the lead detective on the case, got the copies, one of which was a letter that Friedmann had addressed to a relative of his by marriage, Greg Hall (no relation to the sheriff), a handyman who lived in a Nashville apartment complex where Friedmann had once resided.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• The group is chaired by tycoon Rithy Raksmei, also known as Xie Liguang, who is related by marriage to Cambodian Senator Kok An, one of the country’s wealthiest men who is wanted by Thai authorities in connection with fraud and money laundering.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 Apr. 2026