How To Use Divorced In A Sentence

Our economy is unbalanced, money is in excess supply, and its circulation is completely divorced from the circulation of goods. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The husband is required to return these assets to the wife at the end of the marriage; should the woman be divorced or should the husband predecease the wife, these assets return to her and she is to be compensated for any damage caused to them. Marriage.
My parents divorced nearly 50 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
Edward's affair and subsequent marriage to divorced Mrs Simpson had left the family's popularity at an all-time low.

This particularly applies where there is no question of a divorced previous spouse.
People around me who get divorced want to get married again. Times, Sunday Times
After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
Their official wages were not that far divorced from those of clerical staff. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Famously, he had divorced Josephine the previous year in order to found a dynasty.
It was only this cursed undivorced condition of his, and — and the question whether Annette would take him, which he dared not put to the touch until he had a clear and even dazzling future to offer her. In Chancery
Robert Dayton plays a recently divorced nebbish who decides to refashion himself as a ladies man.
We divorced and things have settled down. The Sun
The subject on which alone he wanted to talk — his own undivorced position — was unspeakable. In Chancery
If either party is divorced, an original decree absolute or a certified copy of the final judgment is required. Times, Sunday Times
At a decent interval later, twice-divorced Whoopi, 43, would saunter out, like any other unattached lady guest.
The couple divorced after only 6 months
But the vow of a widow or of a woman divorced, no man had power to disallow of, for her estate was free from controlment" (Klein 50). My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
Mostly in Rome, with some time in Florence and Nice in about 1900 and in the company of the Hague-born, recently divorced 23 year old Cornelie de Retz van Loo. Yes, I still love Pushkin Press
I wish they'd divorced years and years before, because I think he would have been a happy man.
In the intervening years our family (we use the term intentionally) has survived a cross-country move (together) and Anne's remarriage, not to mention all the matters both logistical and emotional that divorced families deal with every day. Jonathan Weiler: A Divorced Couple's Perspective on Raising a Child, Part I
My parents divorced when I was six, and I hardly knew my father.
Once people's thinking becomes rigid, book worship , divorced from reality, becomes a grave malady.
Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability.
This bleak worldview was reflected in art, such as the Vienna Secessionists, divorced from tradition, and in the Bauhaus architecture ‘starting from zero’ which begot brutalism.
She divorced her husband on the grounds of mental cruelty.
Oddly, the vision I have of the newly divorced woman flinging herself onto a bed covered in currency is not born out by the figures. Archive 2007-10-14
The tale regards the ruler as a father to the orphan, husband to the widow, brother to she who is divorced, a garment to the motherless, a just ruler who comes to the voice of those who call him.
The sudden appearance of her divorced husband caused her to run away.
After remarrying, her first husband claimed they had never been divorced.
A friend writes: I'm having my weekly manicure (yes, I've fallen that far), and my manicurist is a beauty of about 28, divorced with joint custody of a 5-year-old son. December 2003
She divorced him after 19 years, citing irreconcilable differences. Times, Sunday Times
They divorced in 1960 and her mother remarried. Times, Sunday Times
People around me who get divorced want to get married again. Times, Sunday Times
The researchers say the higher penalty for separation may be because divorced couples gain some happiness from the dissolution of their marriage. Times, Sunday Times
She took advantage of him even after they were divorced.
Rules banning divorced people from remarrying in church were revoked yesterday by the Church of England.
He divorced his wife when he was thirty-four and thereafter consorted with a series of mistresses.
For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer.
Divorced or married, they saw their session as harmless me-time. Times, Sunday Times
Especially Africa, because I think conquest and advertisement and television and religion has succeeded in manipulating the international African people into a pool of consumership and cheap labour, and in the process has divorced us from admiration of our heritage and relegated our heritage to being primitive and backward and pagan and barbaric; and we've come to believe as a society that fallacy. Thestar.com - Home Page
Really, my body divorced itself from me in July.
Another contentious topic discussed was how to minister to the large number of Catholics with failed first marriages who have divorced and remarried in civil ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
The relatively recent controversial permissions to remarry the divorced and make women presbyters arguably had biblical warrant, though minorities disputed this.
Both her mother and father have since remarried and divorced again. Times, Sunday Times
Better that she remain unmarried, undivorced, untethered by liens and judgments, unknown to the present. Dont You Forget About Me
For a time, Pearly said, Frank was out in Greenville, a suburb of Grand Rapids, helping what she described as a divorced woman with a bunch of children on a farm. The Sins of Brother Curtis
Surveys secular-legal, religious, and organizational attempts to solve the problem of the aguna, a woman who wants to be divorced, but whose husband refuses to transmit a letter of divorce (get), leaving her unable to remarry according to Jewish law. Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America.
Recently divorced, Foster is now house-hunting with her teenage daughter and appears to be seeking a hotel rather than a humble abode.
The sudden appearance of her divorced husband caused her to run away.
His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
Happily married men live longer than single or divorced men. Christianity Today
Let ‘marriage’ return to a religious ceremony that individual churches can perform and let the tax and legal benefits of those marriages become divorced from the religious aspect. Think Progress » Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson goes after right-wing fear-mongering on marriage equality.
One committed suicide and he divorced another. The Sun
The lawsuit came to nought but the couple a divorced. Times, Sunday Times
The Bishop takes an old-fashioned high church view on divorced clergy.
At a decent interval later, twice-divorced Whoopi, 43, would saunter out, like any other unattached lady guest.
To add a codicil to her will stating in effect that if her son Oliver Vail married a divorced woman, he could no longer inherit from her. WIDOW'S END
In most cases, the majority of divorced-parents respondents seem to be saying they did OK despite their parents' breakups.
Parents with three daughters are about 10% more likely to get divorced than parents of three sons.
The longing for comfort, for deep intimacy, impels the divorced to rush back into a married state.
Minus One is a social support group for separated, widowed or divorced people.
I am absolutely furious that he divorced me to marry her.
King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 so that he could marry Mrs Simpson, a divorced woman.
The simplist way is to get a PASS. That is, don't have any sexual relationship with others before you get divorced from your present spouse.
It's sad that they got divorced but they had reached the end of the line together.
A divorced woman raising a youngster is nearly three times more likely to file for bankruptcy than her single friend who never had children.
At the same time Peter Grimm, whom she married when she believed Diesert was dead and whom she left last May when she met her undivorced husband on the street, was granted an annulment. A Matrimonial Muddle
Because his parents distantly knew mine, I heard that about four years ago his parents divorced.
The documents issuing from Rome and diocesan offices come across as totally abstract and divorced from real life.
Another contentious topic discussed was how to minister to the large number of Catholics with failed first marriages who have divorced and remarried in civil ceremonies. Times, Sunday Times
Only 3 per cent of divorced men cited this reason. Times, Sunday Times
It must have seemed like a good idea at one time, back in the days when we didn't want any actors, divorced bounders or the kind of arriviste who had to buy his own furniture. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
My parents had divorced but my maternal family was very religious.
They divorced in 1960 and her mother remarried. Times, Sunday Times
Consuelo and Sunny officially divorced in 1921, and after obtaining an annulment from the Pope (as Sunny had converted to Catholicism and the Balsan family viewed the marriage between Consuelo and Jacques as unsanctioned due to her divorce), Gladys finally became the (2nd) 9th Duchess of Marlborough at age 40. An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade
Twice divorced, he lives alone in an Italian-style estate near the sere hills of north Phoenix, where he is surrounded by citrus and pecan trees and paintings by Andy Warhol.
His parents had divorced and there was no one to keep an eye on him and warn him of the dangers of drugs.
The story spiralled and before long the world knew him, rightly or wrongly, as the pop star who divorced his wife by fax. Times, Sunday Times
they divorced after the birth of the child
His parents divorced when he was five and his mother remarried. Times, Sunday Times
In divorced families all over the world today, the kids are being shuttled from the mom's house to the dad's possibly, bringing up one more fight about custody, unless your agreement anticipated this.
His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
They divorced two years after I was born. Times, Sunday Times
Even though he was divorced and many of his Hollywood friends hardly saw him as a paragon of morality, he managed to present himself in politics as an exemplar of ‘family values.’
In 1951, he finally decided to dump his long-suffering first wife, Mildred, for the newly divorced ex-wife of a congressman.
Married and cohabiting couples were also found to be happier than those who were divorced or widowed. Times, Sunday Times
There are no disembodied brains, divorced from human emotions, hormonal urges and fleshly thoughts, engaged solely in disinterested play of the mind on the eternal verities.
No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married. S. Isabelle Harounian: The Case For Loneliness
This might happen, for example, where the Court is making provision for the maintenance of a divorced wife or the children, or, with some types of pension, in bankruptcy proceedings.
After a number of attempts at marriage counseling, my husband and I divorced in 1975.
At the same time, as members of a leisured class, these intellectuals had no part in the labour of production, and consequently their theories were divorced from practice.
It is a daymare to contemplate the horrors I might have to go through to see my kids if we got divorced.
It is morally ambiguous and purposefully divorced from the thrill - seeking flamboyance of the director's glory - glory days.
Tempers flare, pride swells, and soon they are divorced.
His parents divorced when he was three while his father became an alcoholic. Times, Sunday Times
More than half of divorced people remarry, often creating stepfamilies.
As we have already seen, our Western calendar months are divorced from the Moon.
While you may trust your own children, should they get divorced or be subject to a business failure, your home could be deemed part of their assets and given to another.
Why would our constitution even worry about government establishment of religion if the founders saw "religion" as a term divorced from any spiritual truth? The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission | All Articles
The lawsuit came to nought but the couple a divorced. Times, Sunday Times
A divorced mother of two teenage sons, aged 44, she lives in Belsize Park, having grown up in north London.
After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
Divorced from their substance, they are not an accurate reflection of the political reality.
The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world.
When he was depressed, he felt utterly divorced from reality.
'I'm divorced, as you know,' she said briefly.
If your designated survivor annuitant dies before you, or you are divorced or married after electing the option, you may name a new survivor
Personally, I appreciated the importance of being able to empathize with a newly widowed or soon-to-be-divorced client.
Similarly, a divorced or separated parent who has sole physical custody of his children could reasonably be deemed the caretaker parent.
He had refused to stick with his father's surname when his parents got divorced.
He accepts that both the businesses and he are better off divorced from one another. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
At its worst, the catwalk is a place for scrawny beauties in outlandish clothes that often seem utterly divorced from reality. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, the woman would have to marry someone else, consummate that marriage, and then be divorced, before she could "remarry" her first husband. CNSNews.com Headlines
True's real-life parents are divorced and she has a younger half-sister.
You accept that someday your parents will die, but I never saw myself as someone who'd get divorced.
I'm just your average, everyday, divorced 37 year old girl - overweight, tragically unhip, and trying to make a life for myself.
My parents divorced when I was six, and I hardly knew my father.
When he was depressed, he felt utterly divorced from reality.
Those divorced through lawsuits still should present the written judgment by the court.
My brother's getting divorced so I'm going home for a family powwow this weekend.
I was divorced after my ex nearly destroyed me with lies and deceit. The Sun
Nikki, newly divorced from her friendly husband Gary Chad Coleman is a soft soul with mental baggage—and a high-school nemesis still on the scene—from her days as a food wolfer. Lost Boys and Bad Girls
As Gannon himself put it, ‘How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?’
He's been depressed ever since he got divorced.
Both his first and second wife divorced him on account of his womanizing.
My mum and dad got divorced six years ago and my younger brother and I stayed with my mum. The Sun
Divorced father-of-three Terry Liffen was found dead in his car with a hose pipe leading from the exhaust.
Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency. Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7)
One committed suicide and he divorced another. The Sun
His parents divorced when he was three while his father became an alcoholic. Times, Sunday Times
However, by doing so she loses the right to maintenance or alimony which a divorced woman can claim legally.
Please state whether you are single, cohabiting, married, separated, divorced or widowed.
From the physical sciences, Quaternary geology developed as a discipline that was initially almost entirely divorced from considerations of human behavior.
While women must consent to marriage and may petition a court for a divorce, it is men who actively betroth, marry and divorce; women are betrothed, married and divorced by men.
While it is critical that members of NGOs and community-based organizations do whatever possible to increase intercommunal positivity and decrease negativity and suffering, it may be best to do so in a manner divorced from the "peace process," so as to avoid the polarization that can result from falling prey to the politics of the attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
They or the church can pronounce a couple divorced (breaking the Sixth Commandment and the dominical command in Matthew 19: 6).
In 1975, the couple were divorced but remarried after two years. Times, Sunday Times
What if a person was an unbeliever when he got divorced and it was for an unbiblical reason and later became a Christian?
If you sit in zazen, divorced from the rest of Buddhist practice, I'm afraid it's not Zen Buddhism.
The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
Breathing" gets divorced from the company of piping and panting, and gets wed to the ensuing somatics of human passion, "burning" and "parching," while the possibility of "far above" as a location in imaginative surmise subsides to a sighing recognition of high aesthetic privilege, from which mortal humanity is excluded. The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' -
Can you imagine advanced scientific methods divorced from the policy and ethics of their actual use?
Three out of five remarriages of divorced women to single men involve a younger husband.
Yet the singer grew up watching what those did to her divorced parents, and has since seen her brother grappling with the vicissitudes of celebrity and fleeting chart success.
Cats also feature in the divorce laws of the period, with the divorced man being able to keep one cat and the divorced wife the rest - no doubt there was still some argument as to who got the best mouser, and who had the cutest lap cat.
Hugh Heffner is just the thousand-year-old geek letcher who accidentally became a multi-millionaireby way of $5000 that he "borrowed" from his wife's savings just before he divorced her while publishing old grainy pictures of sluts like Betty Paige and other burlesque strippers. Celebrity Blog, Celebrity Pictures and Gossip Blogs
The match ended in tears and they were divorced after five years. Times, Sunday Times
His hopes for the future are often divorced from reality.
Hell, depending on my precise shade of Christianity, I could refuse to extend my medical skills to people who've been divorced, or who eat shellfish, or who wear polycotton clothing.
It fails to explain the absence of comparable patterns among single and divorced women.
His wife divorced him because he was too fat, didn't work out and would not stop eating junk food.
His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
He has now divorced from the woman who inspired his giving. Times, Sunday Times
In the intervals of pandemonium, each chattered, cut up, hooted, screeched, and danced, himself sufficient unto himself, filled with his own ideas and volitions to the exclusion of all others, a veritable centre of the universe, divorced for the time being from any unanimity with the other universe-centres leaping and yelling around him. CHAPTER XIV
Music and creativity were always major factors in the Peyroux household before her parents were divorced, the singer recalls.
Divorced from the program of revolutionary Marxism, cadres immersed in the mass movement eventually succumb to opportunism.
Trying to get the divorced couple to agree calls for a great deal of diplomacy.
Our society has divorced itself from religion.
Divorced fathers should have liberal access to their children.
The European Renaissance population was increasingly urbanized and divorced from traditional folk remedies, allowing caffeine beverages to be introduced as exotic medicinals.
Add to that women who are divorced or widowed and there are now almost as many single women as there are married.
It also defies belief that the Law proposes that rents are divorced from the ability to pay.
EI: I don’t know if this was maybejust me reading into Veronica Cartwright being in thisand the stuff at the end where they discover acouple things about Darryl, but is this supposed to besort of like “Eastwick: The Next Generation,” or is itdivorced from the book and the film more than that? Buzzine » ‘Eastwick’ Interviews
His parents divorced when he was five and his mother remarried. Times, Sunday Times
The only thing I might add is in regards to possible ramification if you choose the "undivorced" route. CHE > Latest news
Kusum is peremptorily divorced by her husband who gives her talaq with no qualms.
In 1906, Hyde went into exile in Paris, where he married and divorced a succession of American heiresses, returning to New York only in 1941.
The female form is never divorced from personality, fragility, a sense of humour.
That is because the third party liability cover is divorced from the sea and all things maritime.
Many divorced fathers only have access to their children at weekends .
Hans Frederick Unmann was born 1932 in Dresden, married at eighteen, divorced at nineteen, dismissed from the Young Communists for rowdyism (criminal charges for assault dropped). Gorky Park
Will it be the supportive lawyer, the needy, cheery, recently divorced neighbour, or will his sister in law finally relent?
She married young , and was divorced when her children were tiny.
The photographs are cropped so low that the steps leading down to the river are divorced from the main path.
By mutual consent the couple divorced after a son was born and she took the name Bulbul Abdel Magid.
In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper.
* Absent or divorced parents; inadequate bonding in adoptive families Stress, Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicide
The entire sanctification of the heart and the Holy Ghost baptism are coetaneous experiences, and must not be divorced. The Theology of Holiness
The marriage was dissolved around the same time that Presley got divorced. Times, Sunday Times
A total of 23 of the 62 men who divorced ended happily remarried and remained so. Times, Sunday Times
However, after my mother and father divorced, my mother, my two brothers and I moved to Scotsburn.
The judge divorced Mr. and Mrs. Tom.
His wife, Sheryl, divorced him because he was too fat, didn't work out and would not stop eating junk food.
Although some children may thrive even after their parents get divorced, taken as a group, the children of divorcees are at serious risk.
Ford and Drake say that since women suffer economically much more than men when they get divorced, snagging a good provider is ultimately critical to an equitable settlement.
This boy is a sad case. His parents are divorced and he himself is severely handicapped.
Perhaps worse, where it does give lip-service to ethics, it is to an ethics divorced from moral sensitivity.
If she goes ahead and marries him, we all know they'll be divorced by this time next year.
Our economy is unbalanced, money is in excess supply, and its circulation is completely divorced from the circulation of goods. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
The only thing left to do is to vent all the anger and hate on the divorced mate.
Whether the couple ever legally divorced also remains unclear.
At the moment, the group is small and comprises people who are divorced, separated or widowed.
In fact his wife divorced him which almost certainly made his position impossible.
The Gospel message cannot be divorced from conscientious care for the common good. Times, Sunday Times
That being said, if bias can be divorced momentarily from the partisanship engineered by K Street: what do you think on the fact that for the first time in history the House leadership is coming from a city on the Pacific? Sound Politics: What It Means
The poet in this state of continual transition toward the future is forever divorced from the present, even from himself, moving like a latter-day deconstructor from one interpretive perching point to another in a process of endless deferral. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
She left school at 17, did a succession of unexciting jobs, got married and divorced, and then went back to school in 1994.

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