How to Use married in a Sentence
- They are happily married with several children.
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They were married in the spring.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2026
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Her best friend is married to her boyfriend.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026
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And no one else had kids and no one else was married.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
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They were married for 77 years.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
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My sons are married and live quite a distance from me.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
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They were married for 36 years.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
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They were married for 29 years.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 22 June 2026
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They were married for 65 years.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
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Haney was not married and did not have any children.
—Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
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Just over a year later, the two were married.
—Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
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Most married men – 92% – keep their last names.
—Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 16 Feb. 2026
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Myha’la is a married woman — and has been for a year.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
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Part of it is that the two were married and share two daughters, yes.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 2025
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Three years later they were married.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
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Somers and Hamel were married for 55 years.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
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My mother has been married to the same man for 58 years.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
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The problem is that Clark is married.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026
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Gallagher is now married, has a young daughter and owns a house.
—Colby Gordon, Austin American Statesman, 26 Jan. 2026
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What ensued was their first fight as a married couple.
—Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
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The pageant opened its stages to both married women and mothers.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
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Her daughter read the sign and asked if the two had just gotten married on the spot.
—Alex Cramer, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
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The married father of two died from his injuries.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Swalwell was 38 at the time and married.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2026
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Saito, who is not married and has no children, tackles about one trail per year.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
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My married life has gotten so much better.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
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The couple would stay married for 31 years.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026
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Aaron Schwartzman is a married man!
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Liu was married to Yan Qingxin at the time.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
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Find a Justice of the Peace and get married right there.
—Susan Spencer, CBS News, 17 May 2026
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Per Reyes, the longtime marrieds are now parents to four — yes, four!
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
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The group is a mixture of singles and marrieds, and two of the couples have one small child each.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
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Widows, never-marrieds, people dating after divorce joined him on the yellow couch of his studio, and what emerged was the sound of common struggle.
—Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
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Where Vanderpump Rules has become a show about divorce, The Valley will be all about the marrieds.
—Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
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Econ- omies of scale—everything from splitting rent to sharing groceries—can also help marrieds quickly build wealth (that’s the value of your assets like savings and stocks and property, minus any debt).
—Kerri Anne Renzulli, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2018
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While visiting his home country in August, the 23-year-old married and then returned to Portland to get immigration papers to bring his new wife to live with him.
—oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2020
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Joe seemed to find his place in the conviviality of saloon life — the constant company of other people; the distracting kookiness and drama of the regulars; the dutiful marrieds, the swingers.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
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Also in the news, a London School of Economics professor and author of a forthcoming book claimed childless single people are happier than marrieds.
—Allison Schrager, Quartz, 20 June 2019
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Wilde and Seth Rogen play longtime marrieds harboring a laundry list of resentments who host their upstairs neighbors (Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton) for an evening of fun.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
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Between those films, Perry expanded the story into the spinoff series Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, with Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White reprising their roles as mercurial marrieds Angela and Marcus.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 2 Oct. 2025
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