live in sin

Idioms  

1. Cohabit outside marriage, as in Bill and Anne lived in sin for years before they got married. This term, dating from the early 1800s, is mostly used in a jocular fashion today, when customs and views are more liberal in this regard. Also see live together.

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Example Sentences

Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, floor manager for the tax bill, poked fun at the plan, claimed somewhat irrelevantly that it would help couples who live in sin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aside from loud claims that the law forced Government employes to live in sin; feminists ardently opposed it because 50% of those dismissed on Section 213 were women.

From Time Magazine Archive

The believer will thus reason and conclude,—shall I any more delight and live in sin, since I am dead unto it by Jesus Christ?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The tinker angry sat, nor asked the man within; Said, "Emma read her Book, and did not live in sin."

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

Nay, he did not only die for those who still live in sin, but he also makes intercession now at the throne of his Father's grace for them.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John