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How to use unmarried in a sentence

27 example sentences · adjective, noun

Unmarried means having no husband or wife. Example: “He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.”

Examples of unmarried by meaning

adjectiveHaving no husband or wife.

  • Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

More sentences with unmarried

  • He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.From the entry anomaly
  • The new magazine's goal is to give a tribune to unmarried mothers.From the entry tribune
  • She's unmarried and still a maiden.From the entry maiden
  • Isabella herself, being unmarried, had led a life of tabbyhood—one of their mother's quainter terms.2013 spring, Bobbie Ann Mason, “The Horsehair Ball Gown”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 89, number 2, page 93. From the entry tabbyhood
  • Today, Bessy is still unmarried but she is well put together.2011, Sondra Busby, Understanding Life and Its Challenges, →ISBN. From the entry put together
  • The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.2010, Ilona Bray, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Ruby Lieberman, How to Get a Green Card, Nolo, page 156. From the entry Amerasian
  • Is there a genuinely nice, unmarried, single, white man in the Houston area?1996 September 20, Juno777, “Houston BBW iso SWM”, in alt.personals.fat (Usenet). From the entry hourglassed
  • Unmarried women show up very well in all the tests of mental health.1970, The Futurist, page 42. From the entry celibacy
  • Is the above a sly way of starting a procession of unmarried printeresses toward the Sun office?1919 January 30, The Border Sentinel, volume 31, number 33, Mound City, Kan.. From the entry printeress
  • Though Joanna and Andreas had consummated their marriage, it would have been ridiculous for a queen to remain unmarried and unheired.2018, Tristan Palmgren, Quietus. From the entry unheired
  • Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried.2010, Nduka Onwuegbute, Masters of the Confluence, page 19. From the entry have it
  • Each shop elects a Catherinette, a model or designer or simple seamstress, unmarried and twenty-five years of age.1929, Collier's - Volume 84, page lxiv. From the entry catherinette
  • That gives us seven hundred married and unmarried men, and three hundred girls, more than the entire Bad Blood Gang.1928 August, Philip Francis Nowlan, “Armageddon 2419 A.D.”, in Amazing Stories, volume 3, number 5, page 444, column 2. From the entry ultrophone
  • To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I. From the entry collegiate
  • “At any rate you see me still unmarried.1900, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Lost Continent. From the entry frippery
  • These women, often unmarried and frequently with no family support or employment, turned in their pregnant despair to public or private charity institutions.2016, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950, page 74. From the entry institutional
  • In short, as they address marital decisions, too many unmarried Christians are underinfluenced by the Scriptures and overinfluenced by their personal experiences and their culture.2012, J. Robin Maxson, Singleness, Marriage, and the Will of God. From the entry underinfluenced
  • The transported were overwhelmingly young, unmarried men with little or no economic skill: the cannon fodder of war and the jail fodder of peace.2001, Alan Taylor, chapter 14, in American Colonies, Penguin, published 2002, page 315. From the entry jail fodder
  • The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato.1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry oat
  • New York's highest court recently ruled that unmarried partners have the same rights as married ones under New York City rent control laws.1989 August 19, Jim Fauntleroy, “Unmarried Couples Get Bereavement Leave”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 2. From the entry statutory
  • So, even a woman who’s also unmarried, 33 maybe, who needs only one good divorce to really get started, considers me a bad risk.1978 November 29, Ed Butler, “In Search of Miss Wrong”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Miss Wrong
  • The queens of the day are the Catherinettes, the unmarried girls who will celebrate their twenty-fifth birthday within the next twelve months.1948, Joseph Wechsberg, Sweet and Sour, page 97. From the entry catherinette
  • He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state.1912, David Graham Phillips, The Price She Paid, Gutenberg, published 2008. From the entry unmarriageable
  • The complaint in Marckx related to the fact that according to Belgian law, birth did not create a legal bond between a child and its unmarried mother.2001, Jane Wright, Tort Law and Human Rights, Oxford: and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, page 117. From the entry affiliation
  • In the yard, unmarried uncles, cousins and aunts began on the drums and hosho in a circle, dancing and singing while individuals freestyled in the centre.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 68. From the entry hosho
  • And if she is then left in mid-air, without natural relief to her tension, she is in this respect far worse off than the unmarried woman.1918, Marie Stopes, Married Love, section 6. From the entry diffusely

Meaning of unmarried

  1. adjective Having no husband or wife.
  2. noun An unmarried person.

Full definition of unmarried

Questions about unmarried in a sentence

How do you use unmarried in a sentence?
Unmarried is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.”
What is a short sentence with unmarried?
“She's unmarried and still a maiden.”
What does unmarried mean?
Unmarried means having no husband or wife.

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