ALIMONY in a Sentence

Learn ALIMONY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for ALIMONY, such as:
1. Also, payer and payee can't file joint tax returns in the same year alimony is paid.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ALIMONY
alimony
 n.  payment by a husband to his divorced wife, or vice versa
Classic Sentence:
1  Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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Example Sentence:
1  Also, payer and payee can't file joint tax returns in the same year alimony is paid.
2  His ex - wife has upped the ante in her alimony suit against him.