Sentence examples for a marriageable from inspiring English sources

A marriageable daughter can bring in a bride price and mean one less mouth to feed.

The niqab imposed a formidable barrier for a marriageable young woman.

The first letter, a reply to Simon Herron, gives the name of a marriageable girl from an orphanage, Annie McKillop.

So things often come to a head when young adults reach what many view as a marriageable age.

"Bridget Jones was facing the same riddle as Elizabeth Bennet, how to find a marriageable man," Ms. Hays said.

Mademoiselle de Chartres, who is beautiful, young and of a marriageable age, is betrothed to the Prince de Clèves.

In some communities FGM, also known as female circumcision, is seen as a traditional ritual used culturally to ensure virginity and to make a woman marriageable.

They called for a minimum marriageable age of 18 for girls (it is currently 16 but many girls marry in their early teens), for the right to marry and divorce in accordance with Islam, and for a reduction in time that women have to wait to remarry when their husbands disappear.

In some communities female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, is seen as a traditional rite of passage and is used culturally to ensure virginity and to make a woman marriageable.

The truth, however, is that if there is any "necessary evil" it's the chastity of a young, marriageable adult.

The title is an allusion to the ancient Indian practice of a girl of marriageable age choosing a husband from among a list of suitors.