marriageable age
Example Sentences
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In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023
The biggest gap between men and women of marriageable age, defined here as 15 to 29, will come in the next few decades, as the babies of the past decade grow up.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2018
The girl was almost two years shy of marriageable age, though, and so the wedding had to wait.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
But successive governments have largely ignored that advice, so the minimum marriageable age in Pakistan has stayed at 16.
From BBC • May 30, 2016
It was a disgrace that as the girls grew older and even to marriageable age they still ran about the village street and left uncombed their rough sunbrowned hair, and sometimes even talked to men.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
