What's the difference between honeymoon and marriage?

Honeymoon


Definition:

  • (n.) The first month after marriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
  • (2) Coincidentally, the survey was conducted during Malcolm Turnbull’s first five months in office – peak honeymoon.
  • (3) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
  • (4) Since the coalition's honeymoon began to fade in mid-2010, small leads had alternated between the two parties.
  • (5) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
  • (6) The phrase of that moment, indeed of the whole honeymoon period for the coalition, was "appropriately ambitious".
  • (7) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
  • (8) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
  • (9) It's a much-needed tonic for president François Hollande, whose attempts to implement spending cuts and labour reforms have killed his post-election honeymoon.
  • (10) Feeding the anger is the fear that the attack could mark the end of India's honeymoon with globalisation.
  • (11) She was then due to go on honeymoon in Tahiti with her new husband, Aaron Leeson-Woolley.
  • (12) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
  • (13) In a sign that the government’s honeymoon has ended, May was called “Theresa Maybe” and compared to her predecessor Gordon Brown in the right-leaning Economist magazine .
  • (14) We know there have been holidays interrupted and personal events that have been interrupted and people waiting in queues for a really long time.” Cruz described the impact of the disruption on honeymoons and long-planned family holidays as a tragedy and pledged that the airline would follow all applicable compensation rules.
  • (15) Vancouver Facebook Twitter Pinterest This promotional mini-film from 1960 pitches the biggest city in British Columbia, Canada as a romantic destination for a honeymoon.
  • (16) Clearly it has a long way to go, and the scrutiny will once again be intense: any honeymoon period the new government might have enjoyed is now over.
  • (17) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
  • (18) Everyone deserves a honeymoon for at least five minutes.
  • (19) However, he said “in retrospect” Rudd should have gone to the polls sooner because the initial honeymoon which put Labor back in contention against Abbott could not, in the end, be sustained.
  • (20) Polls suggest Tony Abbott’s honeymoon with the voters since the election has been very short lived.

Marriage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
  • (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.
  • (v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
  • (v. t.) Any intimate or close union.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
  • (2) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (3) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (4) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (5) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
  • (6) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (9) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
  • (10) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
  • (12) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (13) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
  • (14) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
  • (15) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
  • (16) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (17) The ACT’s opposition leader, Jeremy Hanson, said during Tuesday’s debate that the uncertainty surrounding the new same-sex marriage regime created significant problems for couples, and he suggested the territory could be liable to compensation if it pushed ahead of the tolerance of the commonwealth, rather than waiting for the legalities to be settled.
  • (18) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (19) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (20) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.

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