DIVORCE in a Sentence

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121 example sentences for DIVORCE, such as:

1. She asked him outright for a divorce.
2. Her parents' divorce really fucked her up.
3. It is difficult to divorce sport from politics.
4. My mother tried to talk me out of getting a divorce.
5. The Constitution did not definitively rule out divorce.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIVORCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
divorce
 n.  end a marriage; legal dissolution of a marriage
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
2  In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
3  An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
4  His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
5  But this step too presented the same drawback of public scandal as a divorce, and what was more, a separation, quite as much as a regular divorce, flung his wife into the arms of Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
6  I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
7  Alexey Alexandrovitch had thought to pass at once into those frigid relations in which he ought to stand with the brother of a wife against whom he was beginning a suit for divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
8  Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
9  "Yes, I am brought to the painful necessity of seeking a divorce," he said.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
10  All the hatred of that day when he had resolved on a divorce had sprung up again in his soul.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
11  You know I had resolved on a divorce, and had even begun to take proceedings.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
12  One of two things: either let him take her away, act with energy, or give her a divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 21
13  But apart from this, what more than all made divorce seem impossible to Alexey Alexandrovitch was, that by consenting to a divorce he would be completely ruining Anna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
14  The saying of Darya Alexandrovna at Moscow, that in deciding on a divorce he was thinking of himself, and not considering that by this he would be ruining her irrevocably, had sunk into his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
15  He had thought it all over hundreds of times, and was convinced that a divorce was not at all simple, as Stepan Arkadyevitch had said, but was utterly impossible.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  The mother is usually the custodial parent after a divorce.
17  More than half the children of divorce did not see the non-custodial parent on a regular basis.
18  The divorce process should not be used as a means to get back at your former partner.
19  It is difficult to divorce sport from politics.
20  Her parents' divorce really fucked her up.
21  The Constitution did not definitively rule out divorce.
22  The trauma of divorce can often be healed by successful remarriage.
23  My mother tried to talk me out of getting a divorce.
24  She asked him outright for a divorce.
25  Now, she may file for divorce, and all she must plead is that the marriage has broken down.
26  Try not to mention divorce in Jack's presence because he will think you allude to his marital problems with Jill.
27  The prospective bride and groom hoped to forestall any potential arguments about money in the event of a divorce.
28  Because the separated couple were irreconcilable, the marriage counselor recommended a divorce.
29  Now that we know the mayor and his wife are engaged in a bitter divorce fight, we find their earlier remarks regretting their lack of time together remarkably disingenuous.
30  Not all divorces mean people cheat but infidelity is the number one reason for divorce.