marry

[US]/'mærɪ/
[UK]/'mæri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

- vt. take as one's wife or husband; become the husband or wife of
- vi. become husband and wife; get married

Phrases & Collocations

get married

marry him

marry into

marry up

Example Sentences

marry a different girl on the rebound

You cannot marry that young upstart!

If only she could marry me!

the show marries poetry with art.

I'm not the marrying kind .

he's set on marrying that girl.

Let the flavors marry overnight.

she would marry well or not at all.

It is easier to marry than unmarry.

I am going to marry John.

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.

He will end by marrying her.

John is going to marry Mary.

She wants to marry a millionaire.

The princess was ostracised for marrying a rich bourgeois.

Speculation was rife as to whom the prince might marry.

the dumb bunny wanted to marry me.

she aspired to marry the heir to the throne.

Real-world Examples

You've told me you're going to marry soon.

Source: Jane Eyre (Abridged Version)

My brother is getting married this November.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book One.

One of my sisters is getting married.

Source: Airborne English: Everyone speaks English.

A few weeks later, we got married.

Source: Out of Control Season 3

Is that why she got married again?

Source: Volume 2

Less than a year later, he married.

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

" So why did your mother marry Phil? "

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

Elon Musk has been married two times.

Source: The legendary stories of business tycoons.

In 1878, her youngest sister May got married.

Source: Cambridge IELTS Listening Actual Test 10 (Overseas Edition)

It doesn't mean you will get married.

Source: VOA Let's Learn English (Level 2)

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