connubial

Example Sentences

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She has taken on her husband’s signature pout, in a connubial version of people who grow to look like their dogs.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

“Marry Him” is more measured than its explosive title suggests; and the Times piece at least allows that culture might play a role in how equality influences the connubial bed.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2014

It may be funny, but it is connubial torture.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013

He’s talking about engagement and beyond, but he might as well be describing the act of watching this grating round robin of connubial dysfunction and romantic disappointment.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2012

As her temper, though quietly and steadily selfish, was neither sour nor violent, this state of connubial happiness might have continued long, had not some untoward accidents occurred to disturb it.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor