Sentence examples for marriageable man from inspiring English sources

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

Does the extraordinary expansion of opportunities for women add up to nothing more than Bridget's quest for a marriageable man, or Kate's search for some balance between her life as a mom and her career as a hedge-fund manager?

This invites the suggestion that 'twinkles' is somehow an abbreviation for 'is a thing that does some twinkling', perhaps in the way that 'bachelor' is arguably short for 'unmarried marriageable man'.

Marriage initiatives simply don't deal with the root problems: lack of marriageable men, stressors that break all but the strongest bonds, and the usually correct perception that one has little chance of breaking out of poverty.

It's the absence of marriageable men.

That's because it means more marriageable men for every women.

Economic woes speed marital decline, as women see fewer "marriageable men".

"You get back to the question of how many marriageable men there are," he said.

The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson and others have shown that in high-poverty areas there are relatively few marriageable men.

But a wide spectrum of young, observant and marriageable men and women can be found strolling through these grounds.

That reflects in part the fierce competition among young women for marriageable men after the 1980s war with Iraq, in which 400,000 Iranian men died.