marriageable

Example Sentences

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Once Rhaenyra becomes marriageable, Viserys fields a plethora of suitors for her hand.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

By stringing Herrick along, Chrane had “prevented him from paying court to other eligible and marriageable ladies.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2021

Parmigianino’s intriguing painting of an unknown woman includes the hallmarks of a marriageable young woman: She is elegantly dressed, revealing a tasteful amount of unblemished skin.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2019

Sense and Sensibility South Coast Repertory’s 55th season opens with a delicious stage adaptation of the beloved Jane Austen novel about two marriageable sisters governed, respectively, by the head and by the heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2018

“Why do we feel that promoting marriage will solve the problem when there are so few marriageable men?” asked William Julius Wilson, professor of sociology and social policy at Harvard.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times