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Unmarried in sentence

67 examples of Unmarried in a sentence

If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
And in those days, my hair was down to my waist, I drove a motorcycle, I was unmarried, I owned a bar, so those were different times.
I was too young, unmarried, I had no children, didn't really know Africa, and besides, my French was pitiful.
Most Hispanic and black children are now born to unmarried mothers.
So when I was in Morocco, in Casablanca, not so long ago, I met a young unmarried mother called Faiza.
And you forgot to mention the intrusive laws regarding citizens’ personal lives – punishing adultery, restricting marriage between social classes, even penalties for remaining unmarried.
As my favorite author, Jane Austen, puts it, "An unmarried woman of seven and twenty can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
I know an unmarried woman in Nigeria who, when she goes to conferences, wears a wedding ring because according to her, she wants the other participants in the conference to "give her respect."
A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep, personal failure.
And a man at a certain age who is unmarried, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.
Or the iron-willed Anne Elliot of "Persuasion," who chooses to remain unmarried after the disappearance of her first love.
I like them young, male, unmarried, slightly pissed off.
Officially, all of Stepan’s men have sworn to uphold the Cossack code by undergoing seven years of military training and remaining unmarried.
The Church, while still under the zealous influence of the Spanish Inquisition, would allow Juana to retain her independence and respectability while remaining unmarried.
Garp is born to a formidable unmarried mother, Jenny Fields, played by Glenn Close.(The
Four men with guns, two women, (one an unmarried virgin the other a Las Vegas show gird who drinks and smokes - guess which one makes it to the end of the movie?)
A grumpy old baronet, happily unmarried, decides to send for his three grown-up illegitimate children and provide them a home at his manor.
"Cherry" tells of a naive, unmarried virgin who decides to have a baby but isn't quite sure how to go about it.
The characters, big and small, were well-developed and seemed quixotic towards the end--somewhat like the end of Mazursky's "An Unmarried Woman."
DOCTOR TED NELSON and his unmarried friend the Sheriff have finally cornered the Melting Man on a landing on some stairs in an electrical generating plant.
An unmarried woman named Stella (Bette Midler) gets pregnant by a wealthy man (Stephen Collins).
One of the students has a rich unmarried father with whom Adelle quickly falls in love.
An unmarried, twenty-something hick (played by John Travolta) leaves the farm and goes to Houston, where he learns about life and love in a Texas honky-tonk.
It also marks the auspicious directorial debut of Paul Mazursky, a former actor who ended up making two decades' worth of insightful films focused on personal foibles and sympathetic satire ("An Unmarried Woman", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills").
Upon arrival they question some locals and learn of a married couple who live nearby, the Marquis (Vittorio Di Sicca) and Marquise Di Fiore (Maxime McKendry) who have four unmarried daughters, Esmeralda (Milena Vukotic), Saphiria (Dominique Darel), Rubinia (Stefania Casini), and Perla (Silvia Dionisio).
Comedy-drama from talented if erratic director Martha Coolidge concerns a modern Italian-American working woman in Brooklyn, pregnant and unmarried, finding herself curious about the mother who abandoned her and her father years before.
She plays a very spoiled and uncompromising southern belle named Julie in 1850's New Orleans, who intends to marry young beau Henry Fonda but mercilessly tries his patience; she is selfishly late for her own party, and despite all self-respecting folks' protests, rebelliously dons a glowing red gown at a Grand Ball at a time when it's forbidden for any unmarried woman to wear anything other than white.
Ironically, Jill Clayburgh, given her near inept performance as Carole Lombard, fared the best, snatching up hit roles in "Silver Streak," and Oscar nominations for "An Unmarried Woman" and "Starting Over."
It seems like auntie is no longer among the living and has to have unmarried women (or girls) in order to maintain her life-force, meaning, that she takes theirs.
I have a soft spot for Dianne Wiest and she's fabulous here as the marriage-hungry Aunt Bea, whose terrible luck at chasing matrimony makes you wish you could push your favorite unmarried cousin her way.
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