unmarried

Example Sentences

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Vik Fielder's unmarried 18-year-old mother "desperately" tried to keep her baby after giving birth in 1971.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

More than 240 million adults in China now live unmarried, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

The rate for unmarried women is much lower, averaging less than 1 for white women and less than 1.5 for nonwhite women.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

I wonder about the financial trade-offs of staying unmarried.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

Maybe it was the new dress that made me look more critically at myself than usual: 45 years old, unmarried, waistline long since vanished.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom