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Fiance


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.
  • (n.) A betrothed man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
  • (2) I had to continue my run, performing jokes every night about my wonderful fiance.
  • (3) He was described as a much-loved son, dad, fiance, brother and cousin.
  • (4) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
  • (5) She gave up acting and is now a freelance writer – her first book, Everyday Sexism, comes out in the spring – and lives in north London with her fiance, an actor.
  • (6) The baby was using up all her energy so she was lying in bed with the radio on, trying to get some rest at the chaotic refugee camp in West Germany where she had fled a few months earlier, leaving her fiance, Fried, back on the east side.
  • (7) Last year she had another child, a son with her fiance who is also a recovering addict.
  • (8) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
  • (9) Her fiance, Walton, has moved clubs a lot recently, "and you don't know whether you're coming or going.
  • (10) This is also what Castile’s fiance Diamond Reynolds relayed in the Facebook Live video she began streaming just moments after the shots were fired, which went viral across the US.
  • (11) Neither do fiance(e)s. These relationships, apparently, are not “bona fide”.
  • (12) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.
  • (13) John Prescott And Tracey Temple, April 2006, Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror broke the story after Barrie Williams, Tracey Temple's fiance, told them he'd become suspicious she might be having an affair after she started moaning 'DPM' (for Deputy Prime Minister) in her sleep.
  • (14) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
  • (15) Think back to His Girl Friday, in which Rosalind Russell juggles fiance, ex-husband, speed-of-light dialogue and the ethics of journalism, wears extravagant hats and performs an impressive rugby tackle.
  • (16) Gillian Taylforth v the Sun, 1994 One of Carman's most celebrated victories, the EastEnders actress lost her libel over a report that she had performed oral sex on her fiance in a layby on the A1 after the QC produced one of his famous 11th-hour rabbits from a hat: a video of Ms Taylforth holding a bottle proclaiming to her fellow partygoers "I give good head".
  • (17) Her fiance, another police officer, was at her side.
  • (18) And, almost as ominous, we see the attempts of shelf-stacker Ginger, under Jasmine's influence, to swap her car-mechanic fiance, Chilli, for a more middle-class model.
  • (19) She was no rock thrower at the ­vanguard of a movement for regime change, but, according to her fiance, Caspian Makan, a young woman who may have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • (20) As compared to women in the Kinsey sample, the newer subjects began intercourse earlier, were less likely to have a fiance or husband as their first partner, reported a higher number of sexual partners, and participated in a broader range of sexual behaviors.

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.

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