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How to use wed in a sentence

24 example sentences · verb

Wed means to perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. Example: “The priest wed the couple.”

Examples of wed by meaning

verbTo perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

  • The priest wed the couple.

verbTo take as one's spouse.

  • She wed her first love.
  • In 1989, he wed Playmate Kimberley Conrad, a marriage that ended in 2010.2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone

verbTo take each other as a spouse.

  • They will wed in the summer.

verbTo join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.

  • I'm not wedded to this proposal; suggest an alternative.

verbTo wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.

  • I'd wed my head on that.

More sentences with wed

  • It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.From the entry fortunate
  • She was too wedded to the first thought that came into her mind to see that her second idea was better.From the entry wedded
  • Papa says you must have your Degree and a Situation as well, before we can be wed.2008 December, Albert E. Cowdrey, “A Skeptical Spirit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 115, number 6, page 109. From the entry dam'
  • It would be late the next morning before the newly weds descended the grand stairs.2007, Bunny Fernald, Saw Grass Country, page 49. From the entry newly wed
  • A young woman, before marriage, hears only the myths of wedded bliss.1988 February 14, Louise Rice, quoting Angela Bowen, “Confronting The Mythology Of Motherhood”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number…. From the entry on
  • Húrin wedded Morwen Eledhwen of the First House — and their children were Túrin and Nienor.1976, [2004], J. E. A. Tyler, The Complete Tolkien Companion. From the entry wedded
  • He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before.1956, Janice Holt Giles, chapter 8, in Hannah Fowler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC; republished Lexington, Ky.: University Press…. From the entry mite
  • The newly wed couple were startled beyond description.2012, Kim So-Un, Korean Children's Favorite Stories. From the entry newly wed
  • And even if reality is wed with plans inside my neighbor’s head, the ruins will, by then, be rottened.2012 November 11, Gordon Emmerson, “A Thousand Years”, in Healthy Parts, Happy Self: 3 Steps to Like Yourself, →ISBN, unit 1 (How things…. From the entry rottened
  • Now that Agnes is seventeen and her education, or ignorization, has been concluded to his satisfaction, Arnolphe intends to wed her.1994, Hanna Scolnicov, Woman's Theatrical Space, page 73. From the entry ignorization
  • OK, not your lawfully wedded wife, but what was it that witch Radha Sabnis called me –your "awfully bedded wife."1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business, page 187. From the entry bedded
  • The marriage of the goddess to the shepherd makes him the shepherd-king; Heaven and earth are wed in their embrace.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry shepherd king
  • God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor. From the entry wittol
  • Wikipedia weds this ranging interest to the kind of pertinence where Larry David's “Pretty, pretty good!” is given as an example of rhetorical epizeuxis.2020 February 17, Richard Cooke, “Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet”, in Wired. From the entry epizeuxis
  • Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench!1997, Mallory Burgess, Beloved Heart, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry conscion
  • All that and more is cleverly and meticulously wedded to inventive music and rhythms, a unique blend of spritely intelligence and artful craftsmanship.1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8. From the entry spritely
  • Oceana is a world younger than our own, wedded to a star with but a fraction of the life expectancy of Sol.1989, Dragon Wars (video game manual), Interplay Productions, page 1. From the entry burn the candle at both ends
  • Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry menarche

Meaning of wed

  1. verb To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
  2. verb To take as one's spouse.
  3. verb To take a spouse.

Full definition of wed

Questions about wed in a sentence

How do you use wed in a sentence?
Wed is used as a verb. For example: “The priest wed the couple.”
What is a short sentence with wed?
“She wed her first love.”
What does wed mean?
Wed means to perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wed (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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