Below you will find example sentences with "married couple". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Married Couple in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: couple
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "married couple" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as as a married couple, a married couple at a, years, old and home stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with get married, got married, couple weeks and couple weeks, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with married couple
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
For a married couple, that was an additional $1,700. (10 words)
In 2013, Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan were still a married couple. (12 words)
But it only left fans wanting the married couple back fronting This Morning. (13 words)
From their days as a young, married couple in a newly purchased house in Dolton, the Rothbards moved to Hyde Park, then San Diego before returning to Illinois -- first in Lombard, then to The Breakers at Edgewater Beach in Chicago. (40 words)
While income averaging might still benefit a married couple with a stay-at-home spouse, such averaging would cause a married couple with roughly equal personal incomes to pay more total tax than they would as two single persons. (39 words)
The engaged and married couple received numerous gifts that included livestock, cash, kitchen utensils and refrigeration from the first lady who took her turn to celebrate with the couple presented them a refrigerator and cash. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Bonells were not the oldest married couple at the event, but at 65 years they were the longest-married couple in years.
Sometimes, it’s the small gestures that go a long way in making sure you don’t turn into an old married couple before you’re, well, an old married couple.
While income averaging might still benefit a married couple with a stay-at-home spouse, such averaging would cause a married couple with roughly equal personal incomes to pay more total tax than they would as two single persons.
Not every married couple has a Thanksgiving Day fight as a giant Snoopy balloon floats past the window—but every married person (and child of parents) recognizes that fight.
On The Golden Bachelor season finale, Gerry shared that they were in a rush to get married as they wanted to spend as much time as possible as a married couple.
Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple.
The 2019 Met Gala in New York marked the couple's first official outing as a married couple.
The engaged and married couple received numerous gifts that included livestock, cash, kitchen utensils and refrigeration from the first lady who took her turn to celebrate with the couple presented them a refrigerator and cash.
A married couple at a Nottinghamshire dementia specialist nursing home have reflected on their relationship for National Couples Day (18th August) – proving that love, laughter and some sarcasm is the recipe for a happy marriage.
A married couple from Merseyside have been killed in a mid-air crash between two helicopters on Australia’s Gold Coast.
A married couple have been charged with felonies in connection with a late-night explosion at a Blaine apartment building in March.
A newly married couple from Maharashtra returning home after visiting a pilgrimage centre in Karnataka was killed in a road accident on Saturday in the southern state’s Belagavi district, an official said.
But it only left fans wanting the married couple back fronting This Morning.
Carol Kane and Steven Keats, as an incompatible married couple — he a self-styled Yankee, she a pious product of the shtetl — speak Yiddish, though they didn’t know the language when they were cast.
Colors TV shared a promo of the married couple showcasing their chemistry through a romantic dance act.
For a married couple, that was an additional $1,700.
Foxworthy details a situation involving a married couple, both of whom turned 62 years old and were planning on filing for benefits immediately.
From their days as a young, married couple in a newly purchased house in Dolton, the Rothbards moved to Hyde Park, then San Diego before returning to Illinois -- first in Lombard, then to The Breakers at Edgewater Beach in Chicago.
He also acknowledged children perform better academically and later earn more as working adults if their parents are a married couple.
In 2013, Hrithik Roshan and Sussanne Khan were still a married couple.