How to Use polygamy in a Sentence

polygamy

noun

• Monogamy might have emerged as the best way to reduce the effort of polygamy.
  — Blake Edgar, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
• The Bedouin birthrate, among the highest in the world, has been increased by the practice of polygamy.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• The brothers then joined the School of the Prophets movement, which practiced polygamy.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 14 May 2022
• The polygamy of Mormonism’s second prophet, Brigham Young, is well known.
  — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Though travel may come in time, with Usman's green card, the big damper on their plans is the U.S. law against polygamy.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
• But the church disavowed polygamy in 1890 and today condemns the practice.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• How are the terms polyamory and ethical non-monogamy different from polygamy and polyandry?
  — Eve Ettinger, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• In the late 1800s, the debate over women’s suffrage was intertwined with polygamy in Utah.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
• The group is an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, which disavowed polygamy more than 100 years ago.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, The Seattle Times, 10 July 2017
• The polygamy of Mormonism’s second prophet-president, Brigham Young, is well known.
  — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Utah could decriminalize polygamy for the first time in 85 years.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
• Early members of that faith, widely known as the Mormon Church, practiced polygamy in the 1800s at the instruction of its founder, Joseph Smith.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• The church abandoned polygamy in 1890, though some members continued to practice it.
  — Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Nash wields in constructing a small but powerful work on polygamy.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• In the mid-1800s, Mormons were expelled from Missouri and later their practice of polygamy was legally banned.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022
• Many separatists came to the region and left the church to continue practicing polygamy decades ago.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez and Kristin Lam, azcentral, 6 Nov. 2019
• At the front of the house, two doors attest to two wives who lived here in Mormon polygamy with their husband sometime in the first decade of the twentieth century.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• The bill would make polygamy an infraction, amending the current penalty punishable by up to five years in prison.
  — Ella Torres, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2020
• The patriarch belonged to a Christian tribal sect that promotes polygamy as God's will.
  — Swati Gupta and Zamira Rahim, CNN, 14 June 2021
• The Supreme Court first adopted the wall metaphor in an 1878 case upholding a federal law against polygamy in the territories.
  — Barbara Perry, CNN, 29 June 2022
• The first Saltair was opened in 1893 — only three years after church leaders formally abandoned the practice of polygamy.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
• The show includes stories from survivors and former members of the polygamy-practicing group.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
• An Indian man and head of a religious sect that practiced polygamy died on Sunday.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
• One of the victim's relatives said some members practice polygamy.
  — Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN, 6 Nov. 2019
• Closer to home, Latter-day Saints have their own history with a momentous manifesto, the 1890 edict that marked the beginning of the end of polygamy in the faith.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Brazil, like many countries, outlaws bigamy and polygamy but civil unions between more than two people are not unheard of there.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• Ziona's grandfather founded the sect in 1942, allowing polygamy for men.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 June 2021
• The maximum sentence for polygamy under the region's criminal code is five years in prison.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 28 June 2018
• For his part, Kody admitted that three back-to-back splits had severely impacted his views on polygamy.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2023
• The practice of polygamy was common; many of the paintings show kings consorting with multiple women.
  — Sharmila Mukherjee, The Seattle Times, 2 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024