Examples of wedlock in a Sentence
joined the happy couple in holy wedlock
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His company paid $30,000 for the rights to a false story that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock, and $150,000 to purchase the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal's allegations of a months-long affair with Trump, which Trump denies.
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 20 May 2024
Marina The shadow of Penelope’s revelation that her cousin Marina is pregnant out of wedlock (ostensibly to save Colin, who has proposed to her, from the humiliation of finding out later) in the first season hangs over the show.
—Kari Sonde, TIME, 16 May 2024
Trump also denies having an affair with McDougal. Cohen also recounted going to Trump after learning about a Trump Tower doorman who claimed, falsely, that Trump had a child out of wedlock.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 14 May 2024
Carson’s generally excellent column also leaves out how to effectively negate the debilitating consequences of fatherlessness and stopping the government’s consistent subsidizing of child after child after child born out of wedlock.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
Garvey fathered two children out of wedlock in 1989, and married a third woman that year.
—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
Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 20 May 2024
Marina The shadow of Penelope’s revelation that her cousin Marina is pregnant out of wedlock (ostensibly to save Colin, who has proposed to her, from the humiliation of finding out later) in the first season hangs over the show.
—Kari Sonde, TIME, 16 May 2024
Trump also denies having an affair with McDougal. Cohen also recounted going to Trump after learning about a Trump Tower doorman who claimed, falsely, that Trump had a child out of wedlock.
—Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 14 May 2024
Carson’s generally excellent column also leaves out how to effectively negate the debilitating consequences of fatherlessness and stopping the government’s consistent subsidizing of child after child after child born out of wedlock.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 2024
Garvey fathered two children out of wedlock in 1989, and married a third woman that year.
—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
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“Wedlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wedlock. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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wedlock
noun
wed·lock
ˈwed-ˌläk 
: the state of being married
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