Sentence examples for engagement lasts from inspiring English sources

According to the Condé Nast Bridal Group wedding survey, the average American engagement lasts sixteen months, and during this time couples shop for four billion dollars' worth of furniture, three billion dollars' worth of housewares, and four hundred million dollars' worth of tableware.

Host Chris Harrison couldn't resist a tiny dig at the previous betrothal betrayal, saying, "I hope this engagement lasts a longer time".

Freud got engaged in 1882, when he was twenty-six, and the engagement lasted four years.

One "engagement" lasted eight years.

The engagement lasted a year.

Their engagement lasted forty years until their wedding, four decades later, two years before Spyer died.

Hawthorne loved Sophia, but he was incapable of shedding his habitual ambivalence: their engagement lasted three years.

The engagement lasted seven years, during which he finished his studies, and they rarely saw each other.

The engagement lasted forty-eight hours and left perhaps two hundred and fifty soldiers and a thousand of the extremists dead, with possibly as many, on both sides, maimed or wounded.

On August 19 in an engagement lasting less than 20 minutes, Scott drove Valencia from Contreras and gained control of several roads leading to Mexico City.

The engagement lasted for 17 years before they were married; all the while she continued her academic paintings and won awards from the Salon.