husband-to-be

Example Sentences

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She was a Loyalist, and her American husband-to-be was an officer in the British army, so she may have assumed that her political sympathies would protect her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

The novel’s second part, which is the longest, takes readers back to 1975, when Vivian Yin first met her husband-to-be, Richard Lowell.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

A bride with a rare disorder affecting her mobility surprised her husband-to-be by walking down the aisle on their wedding day in East Yorkshire.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

During graduate school Mojsov also met her husband-to-be, immunologist Michel Nussenzweig, then immersed in medical school at New York University and a Ph.D. program at Rockefeller.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 8, 2023

“You admit you do not love your husband-to-be? Fancy. An honest woman. You’re a rare specimen, Highness.”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman