marriageable

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

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

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

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

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

But if I made myself unsellable here, my parents need only wait until China, and there, where anything happens, they would be able to unload us, even me—sellable, marriageable.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston