Groom

//ɡɹuːm//

"Groom" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.

Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.

The groom works for a company now, and the bride is our teacher.

Just before the wedding, the drunken father shouted at the groom: "I won't hand out my daughter to some stranger!"

The bride and groom kissed when the ceremony ended.

The groom was getting cold feet just minutes before the wedding.

The groom left the bride standing at the altar.

The apes groom each other.

The groom hid inside the wedding cake.

Every unmarried man is a groom for life.

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Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole

The needy groom, that never finger'd groat, Would make a miracle of thus much coin …

Give the mare a quick groom before you take her out.

2010 (April 20) "The Collection" s1e6 of TV series Justified The wife didn't care about riding, but Owen did. Well, he cared about me. I went from doing everything — grooming, feeding, looking out — to being handed the reins of the most magnificent creatures ready to ride.

It appears that Broderick's seconds, although cool, brave men, were entirely without experience in arranging a duel, and did not know that a man should be groomed for one as carefully as a horse is groomed for a race.

It is of special interest to note the subjects considered as important to those who are being groomed for top administrative posts

2002, Clone High episode 1 - "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" Our mission is to unfreeze those clones, send them back to high school, and secretly groom them to one day rule the world. Failure to do so could mean world leaders just keep getting worse.

2009, Dani Johnson, Grooming the Next Generation for Success

2012 (February 28) in "The Man Behind the Curtain" s3e7 of TV series Justified I was the son he always wanted. He groomed me to take over someday, but now Sammy's got the houses, the cars, the money, the juice.

India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.

2023 in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" episode 5 "Deux Amours" regarding Laurent Daryl "But he's gonna be safe? I'm afraid those nuns raised him a little -- a little soft." Losang "He'll be well looked after. Nurtured and groomed... to be the leader he's destined to be."

2009, Suzanne Ost, Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses

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