Alimony

//ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni//

"Alimony" in a Sentence (16 examples)

"Is there any reason I need to be in the delivery room when my wife is giving birth?" "Only if the word 'alimony' means anything to you."

She only wants alimony. In every other respect, I mean nothing to her.

Tom said he was three months behind on alimony.

Tom said that he was three months behind on alimony.

Tom refuses to pay alimony.

Mennad stopped paying alimony.

Ziri is behind on rent because of alimony.

Ziri stopped paying alimony.

Ziri paid no more alimony.

Ziri isn't paying alimony.

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In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.

Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.

Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]

[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]

[…]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.

[…]having the advantage of this strange way of alimony, he sold his allowance of provant at great rates;[…]

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