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
"We can learn from Sri Lanka, which increased the marriageable age for girls, or from Bangladesh and Vietnam, which enabled a basket of non-permanent contraceptives to reach women on their doorstep."
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2021
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
Greeley received a letter thanking him for his generosity, but the family felt Maggie’s sporadic years of education were sufficient for a young lady of the marriageable age of seventeen.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
