marry
verb (used with object)
to take in marriage.
have married
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present perfectof marry.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an AI-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo government in 2024 to lift Japan's low birth rate, according to official data.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
“The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy,” he supposedly once observed, “is that Onassis probably wouldn’t have married Mrs. Khrushchev.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
She's encouraging people who Mrs Butcher may have married over the past five decades to get in contact to share updates beyond their wedding day.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
The parents of the dead will speculate for the rest of their lives about the lives their children will never have: Who would they have married, what job would they have had?
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
I fancied that I would have married him, had he lived.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
