wedlock

Example Sentences

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When a magazine was investigating Mr. Guo, he accused its publisher of having a child out of wedlock with another of his opponents.

From New York Times

“It would be pregnant 17-year-olds who have strong religious beliefs that having a child out of wedlock would be worse than the predicament that they’re already in.”

From Washington Post

That was the way it had to happen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly for a Black woman whose baby was born out of wedlock.

From Washington Post

Born out of wedlock, Dido was raised as part of the aristocratic Murray family in Georgian London and spent much of her life at Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath in north London.

From BBC

The question bubbling in Catholic circles: How did a twice-divorced man, with at least one child born out of wedlock, manage to get married in the Roman Catholic Church?

From New York Times