unmarry

Example Sentences

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We marry, unmarry and remarry again more quickly than the citizens of any other Western nation.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2013

Weldon Owens, witness at a wedding, signed on the wrong line, had to get a court order to unmarry him.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you like to exercise your authority I'll run away and you can't unmarry me.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

One had a broken leg, another a black eye, a third a swollen nose; all were suffering from some ailment, but with one voice they joined in the cry, "Lady, unmarry us again!"

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel

However 'tis, I now think fit to unmarry 'em; And as for him, I'll use him with what Rigor The utmost Limits of the Law allows me.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague