connubial

Example Sentences

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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

It may be funny, but it is connubial torture.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013

Ms. Cattrall’s celebrity is the principal reason for what may seem like a premature revival of Coward’s 1930 comedy of connubial fisticuffs, which was staged to splendid advantage on Broadway only nine years ago.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011

Why, Toney, my dear fellow," said the Professor, "you must know that when a man gets a bald pate he naturally begins to think of domestic bliss and connubial felicity, which are poetical subjects.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George