How to Use dowry in a Sentence
dowry
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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
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But the state’s dowry bought more than a dashing groom.
—The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
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The idea goes back to the time when dowries were all that women brought to the table.
—Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 19 June 2017
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Our parents use us as a source of income through dowry.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
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The husband hadn’t paid the dowry and her father didn’t like the way she was being treated.
—Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017
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She is later forced to re-marry by her mother-in-law for the dowry.
—Jane Li, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
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In the past, there was a tradition of including a chess set with a bride’s dowry.
—Inna Lazareva, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
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Baher didn’t know how she was supposed to afford the dowries.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
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Okello, whose real name is Kel, is an ex-con who works for a dowry scam.
—Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
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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
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On paper, marrying UTC seems to come with a dowry for Raytheon.
—Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 20 June 2019
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Women feel a lot of pressure to marry young to get a dowry for the family.
—Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
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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
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Because when you're married off, the [husbands] pay dowry.
—Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 18 Apr. 2018
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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
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Legend has it, Ruven Perelman made the one-off in 1992 for his daughter’s dowry.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 24 June 2022
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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
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The post said five men were participating in the auction for her dowry.
—Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
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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
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Nobody, in the Western democracies at least, pays a dowry.
—Time, 28 June 2023
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Her large dowry could then be invested in his sulfur mine.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
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The dowry comes in many forms, including money, but some choose cattle.
—Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017
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The problem is not just specific customs, such as the payment of dowries or living with in-laws.
—The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
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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
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The bride is almost always expected to bring with her a sizable dowry.
—Yashica Dutt, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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When a girl is married, the family receives dowry — mainly goats, sheep, cows.
—Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
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Now, the platform has been used by people hoping to win big dowries by selling an underage girl.
—Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
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His wife, Winifred, from a Sheffield steel family, had come with a considerable dowry.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
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