Sentence examples for divorcee from inspiring English sources

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The word "divorcee" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone who has been divorced and is no longer married. For example: "My grandmother is a divorcee who has been single for over 15 years."

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divorcee

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A person divorced.

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fewer means smaller in number, eg fewer coins; less means smaller in quantity, eg less money Ffestiniog fiance male, fiancee female; but note divorcee is both male and female Fianna Fáil Irish political party fiasco like debacle and farce, overused in news stories: who says it's a fiasco?

She happened to be one of the nearest and she was a divorcee herself, and so it was.

Born in South Africa to Zimbabwean parents, Grace was a 20-year-old divorcee when she got a secretarial job in the president's office.

Edward's mistress, the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, was staying with friends in the south of France at the time.

There may even be a divorcee with a child.Some traditions endure.

To be queen of Albania was perhaps not the first choice of a woman seeking a royal career; Britain would have been better, but Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, seemed all set for the queen's job there (until the king spoiled everything by abdicating).

As one mall-builder explains: "You can't sit in beach resorts for 365 days a year".Mr Dasgupta also meets some of those around them: a young divorcee who talks of her rich but feckless former husband, as well as a drug-dealer to the wealthy and a small-time, big-talking pretender who hopes to facilitate $300 billion deals.

He once scolded Rudolph Giuliani from the pulpit for receiving the Eucharist at mass; as a divorcee, the former New York mayor was not entitled to receive communion.

Beyond her roles as fairy-tale princess and floundering, suffering divorcee, Diana's appeal rested in part on an ancient archetype: the monarch who walks among the people, working miracles, in her case among the lepers, AIDS patients and maimed children she unsqueamishly embraced.

Ira, a recent divorcee, cannot take off his wedding ring, which is "cinched" by "the blousy fat of his finger".

Mr Reagan, an easy-going divorcee, supported the church like a buttress, from the outside.

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