DIVORCE in a Sentence

Learn DIVORCE 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.
121 example sentences for DIVORCE, such as:
1. She'd rung up to discuss the divorce.
2. My parents' divorce had a big effect on me.
3. The actor's wife has filed for divorce again.
4. In my generation the divorce rate is very high.
5. The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIVORCE
divorce
 n.  the legal dissolution of a marriage
 v.  part; cease or break association with
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)
1  After his divorce he reverted to his old habit of drinking.
2  The actor's wife has filed for divorce again.
3  Their marriage ended eight years ago in an acrimonious divorce.
4  He has a liberal attitude to divorce and remarriage.
5  Angela's divorce will certainly set tongues wagging.
6  The divorce court awarded custody to the child's mother.
7  She'd rung up to discuss the divorce.
8  My parents' divorce had a big effect on me.
9  He gave her an ultimatum - she could either stop seeing Peter and come back to him or it was divorce.
10  I expect you had to pay a fat fee to your divorce lawyers.
11  The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
12  Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce.
13  In my generation the divorce rate is very high.
14  The impact of divorce on children can be long-lasting.
15  The divorce between labor and capital that has occurred in the developed world has not come to pass in the developing countries.