banns

Example Sentences

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“I’m going to pack up my two kids and my dog and drive up with all my documents,” including their banns, Quebec’s required public announcement of an impending marriage.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

The marriage banns, posted on a bulletin board in the town hall, included those for an auto-body painter and a cashier, a zinc roofer and his stay-at-home fiancée, and an optician and a midwife.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

The same impudent fantasy provoked Austen to scribble marriage banns for herself and a variety of imaginary husbands in the register of her father's church.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2013

The Daily Mirror and The Sun tabloids said on Saturday that McCartney and Shevell, who posted wedding banns last month, would be married at London's Marylebone Register Office before 30 invited guests.

From Reuters • Oct. 8, 2011

The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald