How to Use dowry in a Sentence

dowry

noun

• The groom couldn’t pay the dowry of 10 camels and 10 cattle to marry her.
  — Scott Armstrong, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2017
• But the state’s dowry bought more than a dashing groom.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• The idea goes back to the time when dowries were all that women brought to the table.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 19 June 2017
• Our parents use us as a source of income through dowry.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• The husband hadn’t paid the dowry and her father didn’t like the way she was being treated.
  — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017
• She is later forced to re-marry by her mother-in-law for the dowry.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
• In the past, there was a tradition of including a chess set with a bride’s dowry.
  — Inna Lazareva, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
• Baher didn’t know how she was supposed to afford the dowries.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Okello, whose real name is Kel, is an ex-con who works for a dowry scam.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
• A Chinese wedding comes with lots of perks: cash from the guests and often a dowry from the bride’s family and a house from the groom’s.
  — WSJ, 20 Mar. 2017
• On paper, marrying UTC seems to come with a dowry for Raytheon.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Women feel a lot of pressure to marry young to get a dowry for the family.
  — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
• What’s more, Burton had promised a generous dowry to be paid at the end of the season, in time for the start of the fall semester.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• Because when you're married off, the [husbands] pay dowry.
  — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
• That meant being more than a mother and a wife, more than a woman for whom a suitable dowry was a cow of three years.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2021
• Legend has it, Ruven Perelman made the one-off in 1992 for his daughter’s dowry.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 24 June 2022
• Brides come with huge gifts, dowries, that were once the only property that a woman could call her own.
  — A.a. Gill, A-LIST, 4 July 2018
• The post said five men were participating in the auction for her dowry.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• After around a year of healing, her father gave her to a 70-year-old man to be his fifth wife, in exchange for a dowry of three cows.
  — Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• Nobody, in the Western democracies at least, pays a dowry.
  — Time, 28 June 2023
• Her large dowry could then be invested in his sulfur mine.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• The dowry comes in many forms, including money, but some choose cattle.
  — Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017
• The problem is not just specific customs, such as the payment of dowries or living with in-laws.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Just as the three brothers share a bedroom, so too do the three women: the china room of the title, so-called because of the crockery on the walls, part of Mai’s dowry.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• The bride is almost always expected to bring with her a sizable dowry.
  — Yashica Dutt, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2020
• At a makeshift gold stand on a Rafah street, women sell the last of their jewelry and wedding dowries for cash to feed their families.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• In Nigeria, the husband’s family pays the bride price, but Kavita has come from India with her own dowry.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2020
• Among the treasures is the must-see jade cabbage—just look for the iPhone-snapping throngs—salvaged from a 19th-century royal dowry.
  — Alia Akkam, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
• When a girl is married, the family receives dowry — mainly goats, sheep, cows.
  — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• But Kaur has yet to receive the $8,500 her family paid in dowry, or any other compensation for her decade-plus ordeal.
  — Time, 28 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024