How to Use marry in a Sentence

marry

verb
  • I asked her to marry me.
  • They were married by a justice of the peace.
  • They hope to have a priest marry them.
  • They married for love, not money.
  • He married his college sweetheart.
  • The minister has married more than 100 couples.
  • Mel was married and has two sons.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • We had been married just shy of two years.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Kim has been married three times.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And they have been married for years.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • How long had they been married?
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Wright had been married three times.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • They’ve been married for a decade.
    — Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Moore said they had been married for over three decades.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • You've been married three times.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Once there, Lysanne marries a rich young man.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • We have been married for 38 years.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • They had been married for over 20 years.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • They have been married for 27 years.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Many have been married for more than 20 years.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The guy asked me to marry him every day for three years.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Many of you dated or even married your co-stars.
    — Andrea Lavinthal, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Amal Clooney's whole life changed when she got married.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • They have been married 45 years.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Her brother was to get married there in two months.
    — Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Years ago, a close friend of mine was getting married.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
  • But then that's balanced by my fear for the right to marry.
    — Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And your mother married an old boyfriend of mine.
    — Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of women wouldn’t want to be married to a gay man.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Starmer is married and has two teenage children.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025

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