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

She was desirous of improvement, and said, "she would give up all the profits of her barrow, and go into the hardest service, rather than live in sin and ignorance."

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

That God's people do not live in sin, 18.

From The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by Tidwell, Josiah Blake

But, after all, there are very many more than I have as yet mentioned, who wait for a time of repentance to come while at present they live in sin.

From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry