Sentence examples for at marriageable from inspiring English sources

Because of males' greater vulnerability to childhood disease, nature ensures that 105 boys are born for every 100 girls, so the sexes will be equal at marriageable age.

(To be fair, Patterson recognized "the inhumanity" of his proposal, as "it involves the separation of families, and of the sexes at marriageable ages"; it would have also left "in the South an enormous disproportionate of male slaves under circumstances most of all calculated to dissatisfy and brutalize them").

I suspect thats because anyone at marriageable age right now – including those weird states where you can marry your cousin at 16 (looking at you, Delaware!) – already has an MP3 player.

For the most part, jobless men are not viewed as marriageable material by women.

Contrary to this expectation, the speaker (v.i., 小七 sio 2 tshit 4 little seven 'Little Seven') has no wife at the mature and marriageable age, let alone at the old age, as in 11.

Now, the generation with distorted sex ratios at birth is reaching marriageable age.

A gorgeous guy can't also be a decent, trustworthy, marriageable male, at least not in any real-life story we've ever lived.

He was perhaps best known to moviegoers as the young, bearded Caleb Pontipee, one of the marriageable frontiersmen at the heart of the 1954 film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," directed by Stanley Donen and choreographed by Michael Kidd.

After all, Mrs. Astor -- there's no way around it -- is so old that she remembers a time when older gentlemen attending the opera wore collapsible top hats and carried gold-topped walking sticks as a signal to knowing young gentlemen that they had a daughter of marriageable age at home.

"Because of the lack of marriageable black men, marriage rates have dropped among African-Americans," said Dr. Edward O. Laumann, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and an editor of the new book "The Sexual Organization of the City".

She discovers that women are considered to be beyond marriageable age at just 23 - and finds out about the social pressures facing Suruchi Sharma, who's still not married at 28. Suruchi is in a high income bracket - but can't find a landlord who's prepared to rent a property to an unattached female like herself.