Sentence examples for married down from inspiring English sources

My mother married to get away, but she too "married down" as they used to call it, and never recovered from her loss of status.

Asked why she married down, she lifts up seven fingers one for each of the elder sisters who had first to be found a husband and dowry.With this history, Dharavi's population is diverse.

It's also a slapstick sitcom about a middle-class suburban Rhode Island family, headed by Lois and Peter Griffin, she a standard-issue loving housewife who married down and he a hugely fat happy idiot.

Her mother -- fey, fragmented, "somewhat wistful" and "too fine for the working-class neighborhood that surrounded us" -- graduated from Smith, quoted Schiller, and married down, for passionate love, at 33, after which she carried herself "like a grieving queen".

"We let them get married down range where the guns were shot.

If we married "down," we were literally worth less (or "worthless") in the eyes of our culture -- shunned, chastised, devalued.

(Indeed, a growing proportion is marrying down).

Did their spouses marry down?

"More women will marry down; more men will marry up".

Instead, there are business disappointments, debts, and marrying down — a regression to the mean.

ONE of the dire predictions about educated women is true: today, more of them are "marrying down".