(1) Back in London, I had word that Estella was betrothed to Bentley Drummle, a loathsome ne-er-do-well from my lunching club.
(2) Concomitant with the reintroduction of the ancient European betrothal system, the adolescent age of first coitus has lowered and averages two years earlier than first contraception.
(3) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
(4) Are Nicola Sturgeon and the majority within her party really so betrothed to the idea of the UK being part of the European Union that she is comfortable with Mr Blair sliding on to the same platform?
(5) Though not so much as to accept the impertinent offer of marriage from Mr Guppy, for – if it is not too much to hope – I rather think that in 500 pages or so I may be betrothed to the handsome and warm-hearted Dr Woodcourt who gave me some reason for encouragement before leaving the narrative after being nice to Young Jo.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Tyrells of the Reach Margaery Tyrell has King Joffrey, her betrothed, firmly under her thumb, much to the chagrin of Cersei.
(7) The shrewd reader will regard the final betrothal of Emma and Mr Knightley as inevitable, from the moment we know that he is the only person ever to find fault with her.
(8) "There was only one saving grace," he wrote in his autobiography Dear Me (1977), which sold a million copies, "and that was that I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the universe."
(9) The engaged couple were reported to have celebrated their betrothal in the hotel's bar, drinking champagne and cocktails with other guests.
(10) There you are, betrothed to your beloved, but something goes wrong and it is broken off in tears and recriminations.
Fiancee
Definition:
(n.) A betrothed woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spending time with Fred Miller, 93, and his fiancee Joan Emms, 84, veers close to chaperoning lovestruck teens.
(2) I want to have my own house, start a new life with my fiancee, and form a family.
(3) Investigators found no evidence of a weapon in the youths’ car or at the crime scene, and Dunn’s fiancee Rhonda Rouer testified that he never said to her that he had seen the teenager with a gun during several conversations they had about the incident.
(4) Morrissey also has words for the royal family, saying Prince William and his new "fiasco" fiancee, Kate Middleton, "are so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them".
(5) An ex-CNN reporter, Fahmy was due to marry his fiancee Marwa Omara this year.
(6) First there was the one whipped up by the invasive glare of the TV cameras, zooming in on the respective engagement rings of Sears and Ester Satorova, Berdych’s fiancee.
(7) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
(8) He will be forever missed by his mother, father, brother, fiancee and all those who knew him.
(9) His fiancee Alice, 24, works in retail and earns £18,000.
(10) The fiancee of Mark Duggan , whose death in Tottenham sparked the first of four nights of rioting in England, says that the independent police watchdog can not be trusted to investigate the case.
(11) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(12) Duncan’s fiancee, Louise Troh, was among the 43 people cleared for Ebola overnight Sunday, along with her 13-year-old son and two young men who stayed in the apartment where his condition worsened.
(13) The row of shops where French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed; it is close to the site where Abu Ali’s nephew and his fiancee were killed by rebel rockets in May this year.
(14) His fiancee, Marwa Omara, said: “We can’t get married, we can’t rent a flat, and every time we’re walking in the street we’re scared that we’ll be stopped at a checkpoint.” Additional reporting: Manu Abdo
(15) McDonald played in his team’s season opener a week after being arrested on suspicion of causing injuries to his pregnant fiancee.
(16) Thwarted in his attempts to travel abroad, spurned by his fiancee once police had contacted her, he suffered serial rejection.
(17) The night he went missing, the man's fiancee began receiving calls demanding up to $400,000 for his return.
(18) The Sun: Bloated BBC out of touch says Cameron 29 Jan 2009 David Cameron has lunch with Rupert Murdoch 1 May 2009 PR man Frederic Michel hired by James Murdoch to lobby for BSkyB 3 May 2009 James Murdoch and his wife have the Camerons, Rebekah Wade and her fiancee to lunch 13 Jun 2009 Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron meet at Rebekah Brooks's wedding The Guardian: Soaraway guest list at Sun editor's lake wedding 16 Jun 2009 Rupert Murdoch has a "possible" lunch with David Cameron 17 Jun 2009 Rupert Murdoch meets David Cameron at the News Corporation summer party 6 Jul 2009 David Cameron makes speech saying Ofcom is an "unaccountable bureaucracy".
(19) In the match against Berdych, Murray’s fiancee Kim Sears was filmed apparently mouthing a series of obscenities whose target was the big Czech.
(20) He’s sticking to his choices and I think that makes him strong.” As strong as his fiancee’s language, perhaps.