How to Use divorcée in a Sentence

divorcée

noun
  • Her client base spans well beyond divorcees.
    — Lauren Fisher, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
  • The divorcee is now ready to move to Tennessee to be with him.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 21 Oct. 2022
  • His fourth wife was an American divorcee and much younger than him.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Palomares is a divorcee with two adult daughters and five grandchildren.
    — Martin Vassolo, miamiherald, 5 July 2017
  • In 2005, the (divorced) heir to the throne married a divorcee.
    — Autumn Brewington, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Hoi, a 65-year-old retired divorcee, lives with his son’s family.
    — Vivienne Chow, Quartz, 19 Feb. 2020
  • There were divorcees and singles who ranged in age from their early 20s to their mid-50s.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In this telling, Tripp, a divorcee with two children, took great pride in her job at the White House.
    — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Love with a future divorcee means ruin for an ambitious young lawyer engaged to a dull socialite.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Heather Gay is a divorcee who bristles at the constraints put on her as an unmarried woman.
    — Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
  • If that’s what the divorcee has in mind, the husband may have legitimate concerns about his wife going on such a trip.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Porsha, never one to let a moment go untagged, points out that she’s surrounded by divorcees.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 1 June 2025
  • Santiba is a recent divorcee who lost a hundred pounds and gained the man of her dreams- inmate Talsey.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Howard, a divorcee, and Lucey, a widower, quickly became close.
    — Matt Wolfe, New Republic, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The friend, a recent divorcee, would come by after work and sit in our living room for hours talking about her ex-husband’s antics.
    — Essence, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Bob Odenkirk has fond memories of a certain 35-year-old divorcee who lives in a van down by the river.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • And Heather Gay is a divorcee who bristles at the constraints put on her as an unmarried woman.
    — Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Without that commitment, the divorcee might not have been eligible for a new organ.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • Finally, extras are needed to portray divorcees at the restaurant.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The network nixed early plans to feature Moore as an era-appropriate divorcee, which would have been a first for a sitcom lead.
    — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Hana Mosazu grows up, and partners with a Japanese divorcee, Etsuko.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Now Davenport and her fiance, both Black divorcees with two children each, have been together for four years.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Now Davenport and her fiance, both Black divorcees with two children each, have been together for four years.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • About 18% of women who formed civil partnerships were divorcees, compared with 10% of men.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The movie, which follows a recent divorcee who enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, premieres on March 15.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2019
  • Her character was a divorcee living among four couples in a cul-de-sac in a coastal Los Angeles suburb.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • The sister is a divorcee with one child, and the entire family—including the poster's wife—gathers bi-monthly at their father's home.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • May Cheung, a divorcee in her 50s with two grown children, also dreams of moving away, to Taiwan.
    — Zen Soo, Star Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Beau Nolan's droll performance as Dorothy centers the show, which tracks the recent divorcee's quest for either a steady job or a husband.
    — Chicago Reader, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The idea that Swift might really have provided a dossier of wrongdoing to the divorcee in question would seem to beggar belief.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022

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