betrothed

How To Use betrothed 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.
• In May he'd accepted Arthur's oath of homage, had betrothed his five-year-old daughter to the young Duke of Brittany. HERE BE DRAGONS
• Henry's savage reprisals in 1544 and 1545 alienated what support the English had in Scotland and in 1548 Mary was betrothed to the dauphin and sent to France.
• Francesca is betrothed to Gianciotto who, this being the Middle Ages, is allowed no particular identity beyond being a menacing crookback à la Richard III. Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25
• When a man has betrothed one of five women, and does not remember which of the five it is, while each of them claims the right of betrothment, then he is duty bound to give to each a bill of divorcement, and to distribute the dowry due to one among them all. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• She can't help but remember the comment that they were practically betrothed from the cradle.
• But he would surely have met his death just now had not the crone told me he was your betrothed. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
• It maddened her tremendously that they should all be mockingly jealous of Earl Mowbray's betrothed.
• (The hussy her hubby was seeing gets hit by a beam and the adulterer is crushed to death in the palm of his betrothed. Top 10 Sexiest Cinematic Giantesses » Scene-Stealers
• To avenge his wrongs, and the loss of his betrothed, who is given to his rival and dies, he blows up the steamer in presence of an assembled multitude, and quits his native land with a courtezan who has conceived a liking for him and will provide him with money to recommence his enterprise elsewhere. Balzac