Example Sentences

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In terms of you offering to marry your girlfriend, I’ll put it this way: If she were writing to me, I would advise her not to become matrimonially entangled with you.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

The reality series “Little Women: Atlanta” begets a matrimonially minded spinoff, “Little Women: Atlanta: Monie Gets Married.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2017

Lifetime’s “Little Women” franchise expands yet again with the new matrimonially minded spinoff “Little Weddings.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2016

Desperately determined, the girls would sail to the three-mile limit and invite matrimonially inclined Americans to choose their brides.

From Time Magazine Archive

I haven’t spent one hour in Lady Alicia’s company to your twenty-four, and yet if I’d been matrimonially inclined I could have proposed twice over.

From The Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)