as in wedded
of or relating to marriage
neither of them ever forgot their marital vows, no matter how hard things sometimes got
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Recent Examples of marital
The exes, who have spent the better part of a year trying to sell their Beverly Hills marital mansion, last week slashed the price from $68 million to just under $60 million, reportedly at Affleck’s urging.
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Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Maeve continues to cause trouble, asking Alice about her marital problems.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
His strap-ons were marketed as such, particularly as marital aids for men with erectile dysfunction.
—Mikelle Street, Them., 23 May 2025
These often virulently anti-woman plays, which became his most famous and influential, revealed his deranged sense of marital grievance.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
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Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Maeve continues to cause trouble, asking Alice about her marital problems.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
His strap-ons were marketed as such, particularly as marital aids for men with erectile dysfunction.
—Mikelle Street, Them., 23 May 2025
These often virulently anti-woman plays, which became his most famous and influential, revealed his deranged sense of marital grievance.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for marital
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marital
Adjective
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Morgan Fraser Mouchette, Partner in the New York City office of Blank Rome and Vice Chair of the Matrimonial and Family Law Group, handles complex matrimonial matters for high-net-worth and high-profile clients.—
Legal Entertainment,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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People would wait just outside the arrival gate door, sometimes while dressed in goofy getups while toting balloons or homemade signs of welcome, congratulations or even matrimonial proposals.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Serafini, 51, is accused of murder in connection with a reported burglary at the home of the married couple, Spohr, 70, and Wood, 68.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
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Lachey is now married to Vanessa Lachey (née Minnillo) and the couple share three children.—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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Indian weddings are known for being exquisitely festive, and a new restaurant offering the fare typically served at the celebratory occasions invites anyone to take place in a traditional nuptial banquet.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Pino, a Cuban immigrant who turned a modest plumbing business into a home-building empire, directed Villar and his crew to kill his wife upon her return from church that Sunday because the couple was facing an imminent trial over their 1992 nuptial agreement and marital assets, investigators say.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The latest installment follows the central friends-to-lovers romance of Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), ending with their connubial bliss and a new Bridgerton baby, the future new Lord Featherington.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
13 June 2024
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But now, the widowed Sophie needs West to feign an engagement with her in order to push her younger (also widowed) sister Alexandra into her own connubial bliss.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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“Marital.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marital. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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