adultery

Example Sentences

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Loyal readers devoured his accounts of his fictional characters’ abductions, adulteries, secret papers, contested fortunes and other staples of pulp fiction.

From New York Times

How many district attorneys, she asked them, “have prosecuted adultery?”

From New York Times

So far, the Taliban’s purification campaign has yet to reprise the brutality of the group’s earlier tenure, such as the widespread stoning of women for alleged adultery.

From Washington Post

In 1966, “The Sound of Music” beat out “Dr. Zhivago,” a film that sent a mixed message about adultery and the Russian Revolution.

From Seattle Times

Immediately afterward he receives an email that leads to a correspondence featuring thousands of others, many flirtatious to the point of virtual adultery.

From New York Times