Sentence examples for child bride from inspiring English sources
noun
A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man in a conservative culture
- Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.
She had been practically a child bride!
Michele's wife was much younger than him, a child bride.
She was dispatched into the world as a child bride.
"Hardly a child bride, but young by today's reckoning, I suppose".
The future life of a child bride is likely to be poor and socially isolated.
"Iran's judiciary should reverse its execution order of a battered child bride".
In fact, the whole thing was a part of a campaign run by Plan Norway, an anti-child bride organization.
Pinkerton cannot believe that this "toy," this child-bride, is his wife, and he is consumed with desire.
There has been a rise in child-bride trafficking from both within and outside the country.
Meanwhile, the misogynistic prime minister turns a blind eye to Turkey's backward child-bride practices and domestic violence.
Erivo does brilliantly well as Celie, the abused child-bride who overcomes slavery-like conditions to become an assertive, accomplished heroine.
