wedlock
Example Sentences
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"We were only together just a few short times, and I'd never told my family but at 17 I became pregnant out of wedlock."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
“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
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
Both paint wedlock as a fortunate state, when it works.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
Mom tells me that Abuela Zaida had all her sons out of wedlock in Costa Rica then convinced my grandfather he should marry her and move to Cuba.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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