Sentence examples for bride over from inspiring English sources

He told BuzzFeed that Spacey picked him up "like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold," then pinned him on a bed.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Kirk had taken pictures in the Kanganis apartment on East 196th Street: the adjusting of the bride's gown, the arranging of the flowers, the (mock) carrying of the bride over the threshold.

He is a loud, paranoid cabdriver who picks a pointless fight with Charlie (Mr. Carrey), the sweet state trooper who is about to escort his new bride over the threshold of their home.

The men tend to be significantly older than the women (the entire process of finding and bringing a bride over to the US is expensive, and so younger men tend to not be able to afford it).

The refusals derive partly from an ancient tension between the dream of free joy and the reality of the domestic contract, with its responsibilities: "the pleasure part, the sex part, the exquisite play that got you into all that hassle in the first place started to evaporate the moment you carried your bride over the threshold".

And when she claims as sociological fact that the old custom of carrying a bride over the threshold "has been succeeded by a new 'custom': nowadays couples 'initiate' each room of the house or apartment, or each substantial new piece of furniture, by making love in them or on them (or, in the case of dining room tables, under them)" -- she ought to include, at the very least, a footnote.

Hearts became the theme of their wedding, which the bride called over-the-top corny.

Once the brides cross over, it's almost impossible to go back.

Brides over 30 are often past the stage in life where they demand that their wedding day be the definitive day of their life — part family reunion, part college reunion, with a dash of royal wedding mixed in, she added.

And, despite their sound, unsentimental views on adultery ("Practice lying"), and on the unseemly greed of brides over thirty who register for gifts, they must be under thirty themselves to suggest that "natural or street light" sets the most flattering mood for a seduction.

Jeffs was convicted of raping multiple child brides over seven years ago, but the town still lives in his shadow.