How To Use marriageable In A Sentence
- The rise over the first three years reflects increasing coverage, plus an annual 7.4% increase in numbers reaching marriageable age.
- When these children come of marriageable age, they're not going to find girls for marriage, and life for girls is going to be very difficult.
- `Don't forget," she told my father, `you have a marriageable daughter. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
- So many young men had gone the way of Teresa's brothers, leaving so many marriageable young women behind. RIDDLE ME THIS
- For forty years he had kept all the women of his acquaintance speculating as to his plans; marriageable women especially -- perhaps fifty of them -- had been able in all maidenliness to indicate to him that they might easily be persuaded to share the Pomeroy name and fortune. The Heart of Rachael
- By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman.
- I can’t really explain this geography in San Francisco terms, but the Cross is the red light district, all heroin and fab little street cafes and brothels and nightclubs, and Elizabeth Bay, which shoves up against it, is old old old money, where everyone’s Little Aunts used to live squattocracy brats like our parents all had Little Aunts, left over from the Great War culling a generation of marriageable men. Travelling heroes
- Religious customs play a part, but all over Africa, girls are routinely mutilated so they will be "marriageable", and wherever dowries are legal, they are sold into arranged marriages, traded for cows, whatever. WordPress.com News
- It is also creating a glut of unemployed, unwanted, unmarriageable men. Times, Sunday Times
- Women had long hair, but marriageable girls wore their hair twisted up into large whorls on either side of their heads.
