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Example sentences for "married couple"

  • But the former was not strong enough to enter into questions concerning the private life of a married couple.

  • The women among the Cape York natives are reported to have a very hard life, but occasionally there exists a strong attachment between a married couple.

  • It sometimes happens that a married couple agree, even before marriage, to live together without sexual relations, but, for various reasons, it is seldom found possible or convenient to maintain this resolution for a long period.

  • It was simply the custom for the married couple, after the secular ceremonies were completed, to attend the church, listen to the ordinary service and take the sacrament.

  • The double card for a married couple is larger than the individual card, but just about the size of the double card used for mother and daughter.

  • Two cards are also required when a man calls upon a married couple, in whose name he has received some hospitality.

  • But when a married couple calls to offer sympathy for the loss of a daughter or son, two of the husband's and one of the wife's cards are left.

  • In some circles it is customary to send cards almost immediately to friends and relations, mentioning at what time and hour the newly-married couple expect to be called upon.

  • Wedding visits must be returned during the course of a few days, and parties are generally made for the newly-married couple, which they are expected to return.

  • No one to whom a wedding-card has not been sent ought to call upon a newly-married couple.

  • Wedding-cake and wine are handed round, of which every one partakes, and each expresses some kindly wish for the happiness of the newly-married couple.

  • He continued motionless as before; his grave and mournful looks constantly fixed upon the new-married couple; his appearance struck every one with terror.

  • His shape was tall and thin; his face pale and ghastly; his eyes were fixed with a grave and mournful expression on the new-married couple.

  • The monk, in the meantime, continued motionless, with the same grave and mournful look still fixed on the new-married couple.

  • When a present is sent by a married couple, the bride writes to the wife and thanks both: "Thank you for the lovely present you and Mr. Jones sent me.

  • But a married couple, or a young girl invited for the first time, should have the verbal invitation of daughter or son seconded by a note or at least a telephone message sent by the mother herself.

  • Oh that this, now senceless, married Couple, had here, like the Athenians, prudent Umpires!

  • You said a newly-married couple, I think, Madam?

  • When cards are sent to a married couple, the cards are addressed to both husband and wife.

  • At the end of the ceremony, after the clergyman has congratulated the married couple, the bride takes her husband's right arm and they lead the procession to the vestibule, where they receive the congratulations of near friends.

  • If the dinner is given in honor of a married couple, the host would take in the wife, and the husband would accompany the hostess, who comes last in the procession into the dining-room.

  • The best man stands with the married couple, and is introduced to the guests.

  • Practical Advice to a Newly-married Couple HOW TO DRESS WELL.

  • In many European countries it is customary to plant before the house of a newly-married couple, one or two trees, as a symbol of the good luck wished them by their friends.

  • In Sicily, at Modica, they strew Nuts and Corn in the path of the newly-married couple.

  • In Greece, the altar of Hymen was encircled with Ivy, and a branch of it was presented to the newly-married couple, as a symbol of the indissoluble knot.

  • The Newly-Married Couple (1865) offers a considerable contrast to the other two plays here presented.

  • De Nygifte (The Newly-Married Couple), the first of the three plays in the present volume, was produced at the Christiania theatre in the first year of his directorship there.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "married couple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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