divorce
Example Sentences
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“Yeah, he had a daughter. She had a heart problem and she died and then he got divorced. My mom says it was because they were both too sad.”
From Literature
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“These records can be important for understanding inherited health conditions or for legal purposes. Personal documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates and divorce decrees should be kept indefinitely.”
From MarketWatch
When I was 8, my parents divorced, and Mom had to bring up three children alone.
At 49, Jacqui Furneaux, a nurse and mother of two from Bristol, had an affair which ended her marriage, but using her divorce settlement to fund a journey around the world, changed her life forever.
From BBC
And she said kind of jokingly, “We didn’t divorce.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.