How To Use Bride price In A Sentence
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Despite this, he was informed by the Bride's family that he would be expected to pay at least $10,000 to them, for the Bride Price.
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A suitor must pay bride price - compensation for the loss of a family member.
Times, Sunday Times
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In return for the bride price of shells, wives bring dowries of pots, baskets, clothing, spears and canoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The emperor had already received soft cloth made of camel hair, brocades, sable furs, jade girdles, fifty camels and one thousand ponies as her bride price.
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They then used that at as a "reason" to keep 100% of the Bride Price, so that they could be reimbursed their costs of the wedding.
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Marriage rates have plunged in southern Africa since the 1970s, partly because young men cannot afford the lobola, or bride price, required in cattle.
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It was usually the patriarch who selected a bride for his son and who paid a "bride price" to her father.
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The Prime Minister reportedly paid a bride price, known as lobola, of $US36,000 about $35,500 and 15 cattle to his new in-laws.
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