How to use "marriage" in a sentence

Annie drank a lot and her marriage broke down

Nobody knows when the marriage broke down, but in 1877 Elizabeth was living in a workhouse

Our marriage was impossible

'I have the honour, on behalf of my grandson, Marius Pontmercy, to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage.'

My marriage was a failure

'My marriage to Mr de Winter isn't a crime

"Everyone believes our marriage is perfect."

During the twelve years of their marriage, Tina had become a different and more complex person than she'd been on their wedding day, but Michael hadn't changed at all - and didn't like the woman that she had become

She loved her husband, and she was sure that the sheer power of her love would restore the luster to their marriage

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

"We let the marriage go off the rails

Tina's ambition was, in part, what had led to the dissolution of their marriage

If you force your way into that cottage, our marriage is finished."

After three years of marriage, she feels safe again, but her first husband, or some unscrupulous woman attached to him, discovers where she lives

And marriage - well, it's you who are delaying it

My sister Laura is the daughter of her second marriage

I returned to London and wrote Laura Fairlie's marriage settlement

I wanted to make the best marriage settlement I could in order to protect her interests, if Laura Fairlie dies, I wrote, 'the twenty thousand pounds will be left according to her will.' That evening, I sent the settlement to Sir Percival's lawyer.

Please agree to whatever changes he wants to make in the marriage settlement.

The man was too lazy to look after the interests of his own niece! I went to Limmeridge the next day and told him that no one should sign a marriage settlement like this - it gave the husband a large financial interest in the death of his wife! But Mr Fairlie did not want to listen

'If you insist on our marriage, I'll be your faithful wife,' she said, 'but I'll never love you!'

I found the record of the marriage of Percival's father, Sir Felix Glyde, to Cecilia Elster in September 1803

The entry above - recording the marriage of a man called Walter - took much more space

The entry on the next page also took a lot of space, recording a double marriage

I wondered why so little space had been given to the record of Sir Felix's marriage, but apart from that there was nothing unusual about it

I found the record of the marriage of the man called Walter, but the space at the bottom of the page was empty! On the next page was the record of the double marriage

The copy had no record of Percival's father's marriage! I realised that the record in the original register must be a forgery, added in years afterwards

No one in Hampshire knew anything about her marriage, so when Sir F said that he had married her, no one suspected anything

But then he got into debt, and in order to borrow money he had to show a birth certificate and a certificate of his parents' marriage

The next day we told Laura that her husband was dead and that her marriage, the greatest error of her life, was over.

Immense necessity! Universal want! We discovered this common problem when we met in Europe after Percival's marriage

For example, the Iranian Women's Movement wanted to achieve women's equality in education, marriage, careers and law

This is called "child marriage"

Loveness and Ruvimbo decided that they had to do something about child marriage

In Guatemala and Malawi, for example, the lowest age for marriage is now higher

But the big problem in any country is changing the way people think about child marriage - and that takes time.

I am not interested in marriage

I think love and marriage are boring but I must obey my father