ADULTERY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for ADULTERY, such as:

1. Many people in public life have committed adultery.
2. Before nightfall people would be saying she had been taken in adultery.
3. I'm sure the woman the Pharisees took in adultery didn't look half so pale.
4. She hated to sit amid crowds of women who were secretly wondering if she had been actually taken in adultery.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADULTERY
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adultery
 n.  extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
Classic Sentence:
1  Before nightfall people would be saying she had been taken in adultery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
2  I'm sure the woman the Pharisees took in adultery didn't look half so pale.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
3  She hated to sit amid crowds of women who were secretly wondering if she had been actually taken in adultery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  But Alexey Alexandrovitch said nothing, and therefore the lawyer went on: "The most usual and simple, the sensible course, I consider, is adultery by mutual consent."
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch was, however, so perturbed that he did not immediately comprehend all the good sense of adultery by mutual consent, and his eyes expressed this uncertainty; but the lawyer promptly came to his assistance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  Many people in public life have committed adultery.