Examples of dowry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In many parts of rural Afghanistan and among the country’s poorest, girls are often married off at puberty, sometimes earlier, and their families receive a dowry. — Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022 It’s a resolve that perhaps comes too late in a prickly period of negotiation between two mutually wary households, as matters of dowry, obligation and family honor are all considered ahead of the happiness of the two children in question. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Nov. 2021 When the couple married, Kumar accepted a dowry of 720 grams of gold, a Suzuki sedan and 500,000 rupees (about $6,700) in cash. — Rhea Mogul And Esha Mitra, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021 The opposite was true of Zaza, who had a vast dowry. — Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021 The event marks the end of a long and tumultuous road to the altar that will now see Mako forgo her status as a royal, reject her $1.4 million dowry, and likely move to New York to begin a new life as a normal citizen. — Liam Hess, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2021 Then a dispute over land — which was to go to de Carrouges as part of a dowry after wedding a noble’s daughter, Marguerite de Thibouville (Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer) — and some political shenanigans caused a rift in their friendship. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2021 First to be rebuffed is construction worker Iman (Muhammad Khan), followed by Mang Dodi (Toto St. Radik), a married man at least three times Yuni’s age who’s prepared to pay a $3,500 dowry to secure a second wife. — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021 Over time, the practice became associated with violence against women linked to the coercion of dowry from her family. — Amy Sood, CNN, 31 July 2021 See More

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