How to Use bridegroom in a Sentence

bridegroom

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  • Of course, the parents had to pay less to a convent than to a bridegroom.
    — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Walbert and his wife are big Elvis fans, and the bridegroom wore a black Elvis suit with a purple scarf.
    — Patti Singer, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Tony hadn’t mentioned the condition of Steve, the bridegroom.
    — Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The bridegroom wore a blue suit while his groomsmen wore snug concrete gray ones and colorful socks.
    — Lois Smith Brady, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Whereas the bridegroom is to be dressed in his father’s suit, the father got blown up back in Chechnya, but now the suit suits the son, the whole family is proud.
    — Eugene Ostashevsky, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Many bridegrooms-to-be popped the question over champagne in the intimate dining room.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2019
  • Whether today is the bride’s day, the bridegroom’s day or Boxing Day, bridal couples are expected to greet their guests and guests must thank their hosts.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Flower girl was Willa Fletcher of Fayetteville, niece of bridegroom.
    — Cary Jenkins, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • And yes, the bridegroom, now a writer of children’s books, and the bride, Lydia Appel Raurell-Soto, are still married.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • All things being equal, the bridegroom -- who had his own relationship with you -- should not have excluded you when his anger was with your son.
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2023
  • It was based on the idea that the bridegroom is to be congratulated on his good fortune, but that the bride IS that good fortune, and therefore should only be wished well.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The only contemporary image of her bridegroom that survives is that of his profile on a coin.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Being afraid of a wicked queen or a robber bridegroom is delicious and distant, miles away from, say, watching a slasher flick.
    — Tina Jordan, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Trapped and imagining all sort of horrors, the prospective bridegroom uses his smartphone to reach out to friends, the police and social media.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
  • If the bride cannot tolerate yielding the spotlight, even for a few minutes, to her own 90-year-old grandmother, perhaps someone should warn the bridegroom.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • There is a rule against leaving wedding festivities before the departure of the bride and bridegroom.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • The bridegroom chose a semi-matching outfit of black brocade lined with crimson silk, and a cap topped with a brooch that his new wife had given him, featuring a unicorn and a cherub.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
  • As a captain in the British Royal Army, the norm would have been to go free of facial hair as per tradition, but the bridegroom made headlines by taking the unconventional route.
    — Wendy Sy, Allure, 27 June 2018
  • Dear Miss Manners: What are the bridegroom's parents responsible for?
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • First the bridegroom is mourned and then everybody congratulates the happy couple.
    — Eugene Ostashevsky, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Demon has the prince killed on the way to the wedding, and the entire second act is a lengthy party scene, its celebrations cut short by the news of the bridegroom’s demise, and then extended with repetitive lamentations.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • A Democrat running for governor with Boss Madigan around is like a wealthy bridegroom stuck with paying for the entire wedding in the hopes of joining the family business.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • But as one bride and the other bridegroom will presumably also have features in common, Miss Manners has no objection to your washing and recycling your dress.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
  • This romantic gesture delighted Lucrezia, and the bridegroom, for his part, was surprised by his immediate attraction to his new wife.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 28 May 2020
  • The happy couple are therefore within their rights not to reissue invitations that were previously declined merely because the date, the location and the entree (though not, perhaps, the bridegroom) have changed.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued on Monday, but 29 people, including children, were still missing.
    — Fox News, 19 July 2022
  • Brydgome became bridegroom after gome became obsolete in the early 16th century, perhaps because groom was already in common use and resembled it.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2022
  • One of the preliminary bureaucracies of a Yoruba wedding, increasingly adopted by other Nigerians, involves the family of the bridegroom delivering a letter to the family of the bride.
    — Yemisi Aribisala, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2019

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