wedlock

Example Sentences

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“If we see that 70% of households are raising children out of wedlock, that means 30% are not,” Mr. Woodson once told me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Hamilton was born out of wedlock on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Maternity homes were popular before Roe as a place where usually teen mothers went to secretly have babies that were conceived out of wedlock.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

One was from Dino Sajudin, a former Trump Tower doorman, who Mr Pecker said tried to sell an article in 2015 about an unsubstantiated rumour that Mr Trump once fathered a child out of wedlock.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024

If they came together again it would be in wedlock.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin