connubial

Example Sentences

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This one’s for spouses who feel the need to vent volcanically after months of cheek-by-jowl connubial togetherness.

From New York Times • May 31, 2020

Who would know better than Eliot that connubial happiness in the capital can sometimes cost a woman her reputation back in the Midlands?

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018

She has taken on her husband’s signature pout, in a connubial version of people who grow to look like their dogs.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

“Marry Him” is more measured than its explosive title suggests; and the Times piece at least allows that culture might play a role in how equality influences the connubial bed.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2014

On the seal, which he had used, were engraved the figures of two doves putting their bills together, as if in the act of exchanging a connubial kiss.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George