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"Dowry" in a Sentence (13 examples)
It used to be that a girl could only marry if she had a dowry.
A beautiful face is half of the dowry.
"Mary, who would have thought it would be 2021 and the entire United States is on carbohydrate lockdown by the Chinese authorities," said Tom. "When we were just married, Tom, I never told you about my secret dowry. This can of beans," said Mary.
And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son. And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.
Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
In these villages, women are victims of many social evils such as harassment for dowry, divorce and bigamy.
A good name is the best dowry.
If there's a dowry, even a goat will serve as a bride.
There's a large dowry and plenty of gold; only love is missing.
South Sudan dowry prices are spiralling out of control, critics say, and now girls are complaining that the high price their families can get for marrying them off is encouraging their parents to accept dowries for younger and younger girls.
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The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19
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