Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The miserable furnishing, much of it of purely home manufacture, thrown up into hideous relief by the few tasteful knickknacks which had been wedding presents from her intimate friends and relatives in the east.

From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell

Those who had been wedding guests the day before now came as mourners to the house of the Adorjans.

From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Bicknell, Percy Favor