out of wedlock
Example Sentences
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“If we see that 70% of households are raising children out of wedlock, that means 30% are not,” Mr. Woodson once told me.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Hamilton was born out of wedlock on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Maternity homes were popular before Roe as a place where usually teen mothers went to secretly have babies that were conceived out of wedlock.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025
Catherine gave birth in an orphanage in Dublin and, because of attitudes at the time about children born out of wedlock, she was coerced into giving Gladys up for adoption.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024
And while children born out of wedlock were common during this time, children who grew to manhood in less than two months were not.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
