How to Use extramarital in a Sentence

extramarital

adjective
  • Two of my ex-wives were having extramarital affairs, and the divorces were quite nasty.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Banfield was having an extramarital affair with the au pair at the time.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The pair were rarely seen together and both were thought to be involved in extramarital affairs.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2020
  • And, few places are more conducive for extramarital affairs than the workplace.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Hera Zeus had good reason to keep these extramarital escapades on the downlow.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The plan was to film her and then accuse Cochran of having an extramarital affair while his wife was dying.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The two were involved in an extramarital affair.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That betrayal would be the beginning of the end for the couple, who would each go on to have their own extramarital affairs.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Sees another email that says that the person who's going to shut it down is having extramarital affair.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • During the news conference, Humphrey said the claim of an extramarital affair was false.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The news comes after rumors last June that Millepied had an extramarital affair.
    — Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In between came an extramarital affair, plenty of scandal, two divorces, and a whole lot of heartbreak.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 17 May 2018
  • The friend said Larry Rudolph had been involved in extramarital affairs and had a girlfriend at the time of his wife's death.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Banfield was having an extramarital affair with the au pair at the time, prosecutors say.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There is an extramarital affair and even brief partial nudity.
    — Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • He was caught using a crude slur for Jews, and carrying on an extramarital affair that produced an out-of-wedlock child.
    — Mark Whitaker, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Her role as the mother of three handling her husband’s extramarital affairs and drug empire garnered her much acclaim over the show’s six seasons.
    — Mia Uzzell, Essence, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Jack Lemmon plays Bud, a white-collar drone who lends out his apartment to his bosses for their extramarital affairs.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Jack Lemmon plays Bud, a white-collar drone who lends out his apartment to his bosses for their extramarital affairs.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Jack Lemmon plays Bud, a white-collar drone who lends out his apartment to his bosses for their extramarital affairs.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The film devotes some time to two of Pavarotti’s extramarital affairs and his divorce from his first wife, although this is not the film’s main focus.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • In one case, a man and a woman were reportedly stoned to death in Badakhshan province for having an extramarital affair.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • That was four months after Herchen’s first wife died, though the two were already engaged in an extramarital affair, according to court records.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lina [who has an extramarital affair] came to me through the doctor at the Kinsey Institute.
    — Kimberly Cutter, Marie Claire, 18 June 2019
  • When the two connected, to Adell’s surprise, the story she had been told about her birth, that she was conceived via an extramarital affair, was a lie.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The complaint also alleged that Wolf and Kienlen had an extramarital affair.
    — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In these stories, knowledge itself functions a bit like the heroine’s extramarital affair in the novel of adultery.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Didion writes of the extramarital affairs, drug abuse, and socio-economic climbing that marked the Millers’ lives.
    — Mary Spencer, National Review, 29 June 2019
  • The goal was to uncover all of the wrongdoings by the former coach tied to his extramarital affair with the 32-year-old football staffer.
    — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Brad Hall, 48, charges in a counterclaim that his wife has been carrying on an extramarital affair.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2025

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