husband-to-be

Example Sentences

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Gina Russo was watching a gig with her husband-to-be, Fred Crisostomi, when she realised something wasn't right.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

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 season evolved into another debacle in the live finale when a distraught Tran revealed that the man she had chosen as her husband-to-be, Devin Strader, had ended their engagement a month before the broadcast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

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

Hasina told them that the cousin, her husband-to-be, had already started the process to move them to Germany, where his brothers lived.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini