(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
(n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
(v. t.) To make a bride of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) I am staying here [in an abusive marriage] to protect them’.” Mifumi estimates that 68% of women in Uganda have faced some form of domestic violence, and the NGO says the bride price remains the biggest contributor to these cases.
(4) The original 1991 Father of the Bride was based on the 1950 film of the same name, while 1995's Father of the Bride II was loosely based on 1951's Father's Little Dividend, a sequel to the earlier movie.
(5) I went to a screening for real-life brides, women who I cannot describe as my kind of women – really nice and all that, but fancy wanting to get married.
(6) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
(7) Even though the families have very little money, they save what money they have to cut their daughters, because otherwise they will not get a bride price from the future husband," Dirie said.
(8) So, the specific IgE and IgG4 antibodies to soybean may be play the role of "the bride" between specific IgE antibody group and specific IgG4 antibody group of food allergens.
(9) Formal analysis of the time series showed upward trends in the proportions of brides "at risk" in the 16-17 age groups, and in the proportions of children "at risk" born to brides in the 16 to 22 age range.
(10) For this reason, I thought, of all the brides, she would be my kind of bride (I don't know why: it's not like I have any piercings).
(11) The bride answers: “Well, monthly instalments are only for objects, so if you expect monthly instalments from me, that means your son is an object I can use as I wish.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A film from the Beti Padhao, Beti Badhao initiative In the second video, a bride is about to go for a ride on a scooter with her husband.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) Meanwhile, we have this second-tier ITV offering in which a hen weekend or wedding party has been infiltrated by an actor playing an “over the top” character who the bride insists is a long lost-friend or family member.
(14) I gaze, bemused and, yes, fascinated, at curious anthropological artefacts such as Bride Wars or He's Just Not That Into You or Confessions of a Shopaholic, in which Kate Hudson or Ginnifer Goodwin or Isla Fisher play characters who might almost belong to a third gender, a bubble-headed one that emits ear-splitting shrieks, teeters constantly on the verge of hysteria and acts as an indiscriminate mouthpiece for the placement of overpriced tat.
(15) Alison, meanwhile, is a prime example of what Gilbert describes as someone freed from “the Tyranny of the Bride”: having done it once, and particularly having had a child, she feels no overwhelming need to do it again.
(16) New world celebrity will meet old world monarchy on Friday as Prince William and his bride land in California to kick off a three-day visit to America that has made the royal pair the hottest couple in Hollywood.
(17) But with seven out of 10 titles losing sales – Easy Living, GQ, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Glamour, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller – Condé Nast's results risk looking more bridesmaid than bride.
(18) "There are different forms of child marriage but all have one common point: the girl doesn't have a voice," Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe, Africa regional officer for the advocacy group Girls Not Brides , said.
(19) A crossing at Quneitra, operated by the UN, allows the movement of UN personnel, truckloads of apples, a few Druze students and the occasional Syrian bride in white.
(20) Bride said: "In North America, we have witnessed the devastating effect the Walmart model has had on small business, suppliers and communities."
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.