unmarried
IPA: ʌnmˈɛrid
noun
- An unmarried person.
adjective
- Having no husband or wife.
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Examples of "unmarried" in Sentences
- KAYE: Maria is a fleck of gold in the gold mine known as unmarried women voters.
- "Nepalese folklore holds that men who marry a former kumari will die young, and so many girls remain unmarried and face a life of hardship."
- ˜All bachelors are unmarried males™ is an analytic statement, since the concept expressed by ˜unmarried male™ is contained in the concept expressed by ˜bachelor™.
- His vegetarianism, his abstinence from alcohol, and his refusal to engage in unmarried sex, do not enter into my judgment of his actions as an elected head of state.
- Nowadays we no longer insist teachers take chastity vows, remain unmarried, fill the inkwells, clean the coal boilers, or do whatever else they did in the good old days.
- Where being unmarried is concerned, Miliband should be applauded for not racing down to the register office cynically to do the deed during the leadership campaign, definitely for refusing to propose on Daybreak.
- Jenkins makes a good argument that Elizabeth's determination to remain unmarried stemmed not just from the abuse she suffered in her teens from her stepmother, Catherine Parr, and Parr's new husband Seymour, but also from the childhood echoes of her own mother's execution - an event she could barely remember, but which was echoed in the beheading of another stepmother when she was eight.
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