Sentence examples for marriageable to from inspiring English sources

Girls in one village are cut to make them marriageable to men in the next village: hence both villages must pledge to give up cutting.

The popular understanding was that the only reason for a marriageable woman to take a job was to find a husband.

What do you think of the diktat issued by a Khap Panchayat member in Haryana about reducing the marriageable age to 16 years?

As peace settled more than a decade later, it became clear that they — like so many of their generation — had sacrificed their marriageable years to the war.

The gullible Gulliver who gets taken there is the elderly Buonafede, who starts out with buckets of money, two marriageable daughters to tyrannize and a mercenary maid who wraps him around her little finger.

They were not advocating for the right to turn their daughters into child brides; in fact, some of them said that the marriageable age ought to be raised to eighteen.

The story tells of King Hildebrand, who warns his three marriageable daughters not to enter a secret room in the castle that contains the Book of Fate.

With or without campus jargon, the annoyingly unfair fact is that marriageable men tend to like women who are young, fertile and intellectually unthreatening.

They also draw on studies showing that countries with few marriageable women tend to develop authoritarian political systems and be more violent toward women.

For Americans without college degrees, economic instability and a shortage of marriageable men seem to be furthering two trends in tandem: more women are having children out of wedlock, and fewer are raising families at all.

They're also more likely to find marriageable partners and have a reason to delay childbearing until they're financially stable and emotionally ready.