Below you will find example sentences with "first marriage". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

First Marriage in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: marriage
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.4 words

Words in this phrase

first marriage

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • first can mean: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. Very common word
  • marriage can mean: The state of being married. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

after her first marriage in 2018 1× after that first marriage ended and 1× age of first marriage increasing fewer 1× and his first marriage to the 1× bloke whose first marriage has fallen 1× by his first marriage while the 1× from her first marriage she is 1× from her first marriage to her 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to judi 1× besides his sister 1× eck 2003 116 1× fern has three 1× gallagher has two 1× he has two 1×

Common sentence endings:

his second marriage 2× a runaway bus 1× a subsequent marriage 1× eliza and him 1× ended in divorce 1× ever legally wed 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

children 5× two 5× daughter 5× son 4× mother 3× late 3× wife 3× sons 3× year 3× agrippa 2× paternal 2× charles 2×

Related phrases

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings first phase first nations first amendment first sight

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

first leg first lady first instance first innings first inning first husband

Just after it in the phrase index:

first meal first met first name first nation first nations first ncaa

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first marriage" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after her first marriage in 2018, after that first marriage ended and, children, two and daughter stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady and first round, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first marriage

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He has two daughters from his first marriage and two sons from his second marriage. (15 words)

Gallagher has two sons from his first marriage to actress Patsy Kensit and his marriage to Appleton. (17 words)

He has one son from a previous marriage and three step-children from his wife's first marriage. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

My mother-in-law in my first marriage, Libby Bradford, inspired by the work of Dame Cecily Saunders who created the first hospice in England and grief pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, brought hospice care to Ohio in the 1970s. (40 words)

Since the late twentieth century, major social changes in Western countries have led to changes in the demographics of marriage, with the age of first marriage increasing, fewer people marrying, and more couples choosing to cohabit rather than marry. (39 words)

Fern has three children from her first marriage to TV executive Clive Jones: twins Harry and Jack, 29, and Grace, 26, and a 22-year-old daughter called Winnie from her 20-year marriage to Phil Vickery. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Her mother’s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

According to Judi, this body language ritual emphasises the difference between Charles’s marriage to Camilla and his first marriage to the late Diana.

Besides his sister, he is survived by his wife, Jodie Burnstein; his son, Robert, from his first marriage to Libby Mosley; and his daughters, Samantha and Georgina, from his second marriage.

He also has two sons from his first marriage to Fiona Fraser and another child from his second marriage to Anne Gilchrist.

Mandeep solemnized her second marriage with Jaswinder in February this year after her first marriage in 2018 had ended in divorce.

The ‘Man with many hats’ has 3 boys from his first marriage and a daughter from his marriage with fellow thespian Nuella Njubigbo.

Fern has three children from her first marriage to TV executive Clive Jones: twins Harry and Jack, 29, and Grace, 26, and a 22-year-old daughter called Winnie from her 20-year marriage to Phil Vickery.

In addition to her daughter, from her first marriage, she is survived by a son, Michael Edwards, also from that marriage; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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Mack stars as Stuart, a bloke whose first marriage has fallen apart and whose second marriage hit him like a runaway bus.

Today, Gollo is married to a man she met nearly 15 years after that first marriage ended, and has dedicated her life to fighting child marriage.

He has one son from a previous marriage and three step-children from his wife's first marriage.

Gallagher has two sons from his first marriage to actress Patsy Kensit and his marriage to Appleton.

Eck (2003), 116. Drusus' marriage to Antonia was considered an unbreakable affair, whereas Vipsania was "only" the daughter of the late Agrippa from his first marriage.

He has two daughters from his first marriage and two sons from his second marriage.

If the wali of the girl her father or paternal grandfather, he has the right to force her into marriage even against her proclaimed will, if it is her first marriage.

Louis's wife was Philip IV's daughter by his first marriage, while the new King of Spain, Charles II, was his son by a subsequent marriage.

Since the late twentieth century, major social changes in Western countries have led to changes in the demographics of marriage, with the age of first marriage increasing, fewer people marrying, and more couples choosing to cohabit rather than marry.

This marriage is listed in census records as Crawford's mother's first marriage, calling into question whether Thomas LeSueur and Anna Bell Johnson were ever legally wed.

My mother-in-law in my first marriage, Libby Bradford, inspired by the work of Dame Cecily Saunders who created the first hospice in England and grief pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, brought hospice care to Ohio in the 1970s.

Here they raised Johnston's two children from his first marriage and the first three children born to Eliza and him.

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