marriageable
Example Sentences
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She feared that her daughter – a young woman of marriageable age – would attract negative attention and face difficulties if she stayed single.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023
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
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
