How To Use betroth In A Sentence
- Helping him to do so, meanwhile, is Proteus' feisty betrothed, Marina, who gives as good as she gets in helping to ensure Sinbad doesn't stray from his path, while winning over the respect of his crew.
- She was betrothed to her cousin at an early age.
- You still don't understand who it is I am betrothed to.
- Some initiation ceremony perhaps or unspoken betrothal?
- The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
- I was betrothed to their eldest daughter named Emma.
- The process that the Waynes chose, called betrothal, requires a man and woman to make a binding commitment to marry before beginning any romantic -- much less physical -- relationship. It Takes More Than Two
- While asked to mediate between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoulême, he married the Angoulême heiress Isabella, who had been betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan.
- Italian rabbis divided on the question whether the number of witnesses to a betrothal should be the talmudic pair or ten, reflecting a clear need for more to enhance supervision of the proceedings. Italy, Early Modern.
- How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
