Example Sentences

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Penelope is a shrinking violet, but she’s also a romantic tired of being underestimated and cast as unmarriageable.

From Salon • May 17, 2024

She can’t have justice without becoming unmarriageable, and perhaps rendering her siblings unmarriageable as well.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2018

Five accomplished actresses bring vibrant life to the unmarriageable Mundy sisters, inspired by Mr. Friel’s mother and aunts, who lived on the west coast of County Donegal.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2011

A: It's a good thing that everyone with crazy parents is not considered unmarriageable or else the rate of marriage in this country would plummet.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2011

Her father had then done what Greek fathers of unmarriageable girls did in those days: he wrote to America.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides