How to Use bigamy in a Sentence

bigamy

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  • He was accused of bigamy.
  • In a rare use of a state law, Mr. Leavitt charged Mr. Green with bigamy.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • It was called the bigamy bill, and was aimed at polygamists.
    — Matt Didisheim, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
  • He's been charged with bigamy and was released the same day on a $4,000 bond, jail records indicate.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 3 May 2018
  • Others accused Jackson of adultery and his wife, Rachel, of bigamy.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Coltharp is also facing child bigamy and other charges.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • The 34-year-old Shaffer also faces child bigamy and other charges in Sanpete County.
    — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • Business bigamy of this sort, to judge from recent news reports, may not be so very uncommon.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Photos and footage later would be used as evidence in his bigamy trial.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Police charged Bobby Allen Robinson, 55, of Cornelius, with felony bigamy.
    — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Brazil, like many countries, outlaws bigamy and polygamy but civil unions between more than two people are not unheard of there.
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
  • Over the years, she was accused of or convicted of theft, fraud, burglary and bigamy, according to police reports.
    — Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 2 June 2022
  • The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to forcing a 25-year-old woman to marry him as well as rape, bigamy and voyeurism.
    — USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • And yet the bigamy trial of Elizabeth Chudleigh is what preoccupied aristocrats and politicians, along with a good portion of the British populace, at the time.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the subject of poems that leaned into racist tropes and allegations of bigamy.
    — CBS News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Besides the bigamy charge, he was also slapped with forgery, unsworn falsification to authorities and firearms charges.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 10 Jan. 2018
  • An enterprising publisher reissued an account of the 1706 bigamy trial of Robert Fielding, with prints of the interior view and a key of where famous people had sat.
    — Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
  • And nothing at all is said about the great embarrassment Luther caused his church by secretly condoning the bigamy of his most powerful protector, Landgrave Philip of Hesse.
    — Carlos Eire, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Cooing over the launch of Tabitha Simmons bridal, many a married guest conjectured bigamy if only to secure the heart-skipping satins, the blush mink slide, or the inky velvet Victorian-style bootie with grosgrain ribbons.
    — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2017
  • New legislation introduced in the Senate would change the offense of bigamy, when two people marry while at least one of them is already legally married, from a felony to an infraction.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Grenier now faces charges of bigamy, falsifying physical evidence and tampering with records, the AP said.
    — Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Her proposal to make bigamy an infraction rather than a felony has gathered significant support.
    — Time, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Her proposal to make bigamy an infraction rather than a felony has already gathered significant support from her colleagues.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • As part of the agreement, prosecutors dismissed two counts of violating bail bond conditions, one felony count of bigamy and a second offense of unauthorized practice of massage therapy, court records show.
    — Amelia Arvesen, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
  • The Mississippi Constitution strips voting rights from people convicted of 10 felonies, including forgery, arson and bigamy.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2021
  • After Brown died, questions arose about multiple bigamy, DNA tests and a quarreling family attempting to resolve entitlement to an estate valued as high as $100 million.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Supporters of the law say that reducing the penalty for bigamy removes barriers that previously prevented potential abuse victims from coming forward for fear of prosecution.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 12 May 2020
  • Lawmakers in the state House are considering legislation that would reclassify bigamy as an infraction in certain circumstances.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Henry, never one to be deterred easily, followed up his request for an annulment with an inquiry into getting a papal dispensation for bigamy which, unsurprisingly, the Pope was not super enthused about either.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 25 May 2018
  • The Mississippi Constitution specifies 10 crimes for which convictions remove voting rights, including murder, forgery and bigamy.
    — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018

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