How to Use conjugal in a Sentence

conjugal

adjective
  • The design bears a resemblance to her conjugal cypher with her husband.
    — Eileen Reslen, Town & Country, 26 July 2018
  • Each partner turned out to have strongly different views about the course their conjugal life would take, says Schiller.
    — Joshua Levine, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The winning team gets to have their wives tested, and then essentially a conjugal visit.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020
  • Most concerning to the judge and prosecutors was the conjugal visit allowed by one of the agents.
    — Scott Glover, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
  • It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal… but also procreative.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2012
  • Gama was accused of using conjugal visits to help coordinate the assault.
    — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Perhaps an allusion to Diana will appear on Harry's conjugal coat of arms as well.
    — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will likely receive a conjugal coat of arms in a few years, which shows their shields displayed side by side.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2018
  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge received their conjugal coat of arms (below) two years after their wedding.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 May 2018
  • Married women were rewarded for good behavior with conjugal visits from their husbands, along with showers, towels, and two hours in a bedroom.
    — Bloomberg.com, 1 July 2020
  • On Wednesday, relatives said, wives and girlfriends of the inmates were permitted conjugal visits.
    — Ana Vanessa Herrero and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Chaylla is fighting to free herself from a violent conjugal relationship.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
  • There’s some queasiness, though, in seeing their conjugal awakening while our minds are occupied by Mary’s violation.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
  • For all its reputation as a nation of romance, gallantry and love, France has one of the highest rates of conjugal killings in Western Europe.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Unmarried seniors, for instance, can sometimes be considered conjugal partners.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Most sexologists admit the fact that tiring workdays and hectic schedules can cause a drastic deterioration in one's conjugal life.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In every book, contempt and hostility between the heroine and hero morphed, at the last minute, into an outpouring of mutual desire resulting in a conjugal union.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • Shortly after spurning his conjugal love tent vehicle, Colby received a call from Pontiac with a proposition.
    — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Plus, Empress Elizabeth blamed Catherine for not performing her conjugal duties.
    — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • When Lilly gets pregnant after a conjugal visit, and the gang embarks on a course of escalating violence, Taylor is forced to question his choices, and to make the hardest one.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2022
  • Francis has even gone so far as to denounce as Pharisees those who affirm the authority of the church teaching that communion for the divorced or remarried who engage in the conjugal act is never permissible.
    — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Frenchly, however, the non-existent man was permitted conjugal visits during his imprisonment, one of which resulted in Edmond.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • My daughter, Alia, the happy outcome of a conjugal visit before such meetings were disallowed during the low point of the tough-on-crime Nineties, lives in San Francisco.
    — Kenneth E. Hartman, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Bunny harbors the transactional secret behind conjugal excess enjoyed by an unconscious concubine.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Composed at Rose’s prompting and anticipating Flanagan’s extraordinary Pain Journal, the volume is so direct in its account of the couple’s conjugal life that the Indian authorities tossed its original print run into the ocean before the books could ship from Chennai to New York.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025

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