husband-to-be

Example Sentences

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She was a Loyalist, and her American husband-to-be was an officer in the British army, so she may have assumed that her political sympathies would protect her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

It was there she met her husband-to-be Ahmed Al-Khatib and married him at the age of 15.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

The Celtic band is a common family heirloom, traditionally passed down from mother to daughter, who would give it to her husband-to-be.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024

During graduate school Mojsov also met her husband-to-be, immunologist Michel Nussenzweig, then immersed in medical school at New York University and a Ph.D. program at Rockefeller.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 8, 2023

Hasina told them that the cousin, her husband-to-be, had already started the process to move them to Germany, where his brothers lived.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini