Sentence examples for their brides from inspiring English sources

They have stopped exporting their apples there and their brides.

Shops also have insurance for their stock and their brides dresses.

Most important, she would have to defy Uganda's tradition of men paying a dowry for their brides.

Since the days when amorous men routinely kidnapped their brides, families in the Caucasus have been characterized by what sociologists politely refer to as "gender asymmetry".

There is an old tradition — "maybe a hundred years ago," Vassilenko said — of men kidnapping their brides, but he claims that the practice is virtually obsolete.

Sets known as "wedding knives," consisting of a pair of knives in a sheath, were common gifts from bridegrooms to their brides.

Their bride price will fall.

Some of the women bragged about the composition of their bride prices — with one woman boasting that her bride price included euros.

Others reported that they joined for money: When they married a Boko Haram fighter, they received their bride price directly, rather than see it paid to their families.

Girls often marry as young as 13 years old, and their bride price is nine cows.

Her research suggests that men often consider themselves to be the most affected by this issue and believe their bride's hymen is a form of capital that they hold. .