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Marriage in sentence

1638 examples of Marriage in a sentence

The daughter's marriage is very special to the mom.
But Juana was more interested in knowledge than marriage.
And in the fall, I'm going to exchange marriage vows with my beloved.
According to 1930s marriage manual author, Theodoor van De Velde, a slight seminal odor can be detected on the breath of a woman within about an hour after sexual intercourse.
They taught me about what a strong marriage feels like: that it's built on faith and commitment and an admiration for each other's unique gifts.
Build our science, civilized and advanced idea of marriage and giving birth."
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
As in this cryptic sentence I found in The Guardian recently: "The marriage suffered a setback in 1965, when the husband was killed by the wife."
This marked the beginning of O’Keeffe’s career as a popular artist— and a relationship that would lead to marriage in 1924.
Marriage didn’t diminish O’Keeffe’s taste for solitude.
She was 14 years old, and she was in a marriage and her husband was beating her on a regular basis.
Hymenoplasty is a surgical procedure which restores the virginal state, allowing her to adhere to certain cultural expectations regarding virginity and marriage.
Hades, god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone, the goddess of spring, and negotiates a forced marriage contract, requiring her to return regularly, and lets her go.
Well, an explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen; because the explanatory role of Persephone's marriage contract could be played equally well by infinitely many other ad hoc entities.
Why a marriage contract and not any other reason for regular annual action?
"Whoever defeats my daughter shall have half my kingdom and her hand in marriage!"
They have a curious language and marriage rule which is called "linguistic exogamy:" you must marry someone who speaks a different language.
So, our first year of marriage we went to 11 percent, second year we went to 12 percent, and the third year we went to 13 percent, and on and on and on.
The central motif of Bharti's practice is the ready-made store-bought bindi that untold millions of Indian women apply to their foreheads, every day, in an act closely associated with the institution of marriage.
There are shapes that come about just by the marriage of two events that are happening, and I'm very interested in that.
And when he presented the gift to his wife, her immediate reaction was, "After 20 years of marriage, you don't know my size?" (Laughter) "And furthermore, don't you know I never wear this kind of thing?"
This is why we spend our time talking about things like gay marriage and not about genocide or nuclear proliferation or poverty or any other hugely consequential issue.
And then, in fact, these people were embedded in other sorts of relationships: marriage and spousal and friendship and other sorts of ties.
Look at all the arguments we have these days over health care, over bonuses and bailouts on Wall Street, over the gap between rich and poor, over affirmative action and same-sex marriage.
Let's take a final example that's prominent in contemporary political debate: same-sex marriage.
There are those who favor state recognition only of traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and there are those who favor state recognition of same-sex marriage.
How many here favor the first policy: the state should recognize traditional marriage only?
And how many favor the second, same-sex marriage?
Now, put it this way: What ways of thinking about justice and morality underlie the arguments we have over marriage?
The opponents of same-sex marriage say that the purpose of marriage, fundamentally, is procreation, and that's what's worthy of honoring and recognizing and encouraging.
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