(a.) Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was as if these middle-aged back-office executives were as famous as Lost's nubile stars.
(2) Carrie Fisher has given us the thing even the most far-flung space fantasist has struggled to imagine – a middle-aged mother who is just as powerful and important as she was as a nubile princess.
(3) Both girls are nubile and enjoy a normal school attendance.
(4) But when I picked up a copy of the paper, my confusion gave way to an emotion now familiar to me when confronted with the sight of nubile, healthy breasts – awkwardness.
(5) Emmanuelle Riva is now 85, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 81; because films from the 1950s preserve their nubile youth – Riva in bed with her Japanese lover in Hiroshima Mon Amour , Trintignant worshipping the bosom of Bardot in And God Created Woman – it's alarming to see them now with stiff but fragile limbs and worn, sagging faces.
(6) On paper, She Monkeys sounds like UniLad's wet dream: nubile Swedish girls experiment with their sexuality.
(7) Still got the Lego students, though ... YorkerBouncer 15 August 2013 1:02pm Right, I have now scrolled to the bottom of this A-Level so-called "story" and there have been absolutely no pictures of nubile girls jumping.
(8) Any remarks Uncle Disgusting made about the comeliness of said nubile females were countered in print either with an onomatopoeic representation of someone vomiting (which, if memory serves, went “SPEEEEEEEOOOOOW!”) or with the phrase “pass the sickbag, Alice”.
(9) Elsewhere, there's needless repetition of the phrase "crazy ball" and a video that consists entirely of nubile young men and women being covered in melted chocolate.
(10) The incidence of anovulation increased over the age period of 20-25 yr, with a peak at 25 yr. A close parallel was found of the period of anovulation and the period of nubility.
(11) "Hef employs an elaborate system of procurement to keep the pipeline filled with willing nubile women," she explains.
(12) I don’t want to play someone’s wife and become a joke about plastic surgery.” Cattrall also talked about industry “pressure to stay young, and be young and bubbly and nubile: it’s suffocating”, but said she is much more encouraged by trends in high-quality television drama in recent years.
(13) Some stores think nothing of placing nubile female figures or risqué manga next to more mainstream fare.
(14) Any ageing rocker who surrounded himself with nubile females was referred to as “Uncle Disgusting”.
(15) It's clear, then, that Dodgson had a submerged erotic fascination with the nubile female form.
(16) (In universities, at around the same time, the new field of evolutionary psychology was explaining that heterosexual human mating rituals were a compromise between males who wanted sex and females who wanted protection – and had to rely on their nubility to get it.)
Nuptials
Definition:
(pl. ) of Nuptial
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(2) Before the family planning program was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at 1st marriage was mainly due to the family planning program.
(3) Same-sex nuptials have no more of a guarantee of longevity and contentment than their heterosexual counterparts, but in a tolerant, egalitarian society, every citizen, whether gay or straight, has a right to the chance of a marital happy every after if they so choose.
(4) High nuptiality and virtually no contraceptive use in Nepal produce age-specific fertility rates very close to a natural fertility pattern.
(5) One quarter of unplanned ex-nuptial pregnancies were the result of contraceptive failure and three-quarters were the result of contraceptive non-usage.
(6) Next time the Murdochs gather en masse, they could raise a glass not just to Rupert’s impending nuptials but one of the most successful PR strategies in living memory.
(7) 4.40pm BST "Don't worry, it's not all stateside ballet and south-coast nuptials," chirps Josh.
(8) Overall, mothers of ex-nuptial children had a fairly sophisticated appreciation of contraceptive methods.
(9) One mechanism through which the local opportunity structure influenced nuptiality was occupational choice.
(10) Having elicited such a speedy proposal from Henry Tilney, Austen reassures us by telling us that he and Catherine in fact marry "within a twelvemonth" of their first meeting – not much less than the year allowed Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy between their first encounter and their nuptials.
(11) We show that this is primarily the result of declining nuptiality (and rising marital dissolution) and secondarily the result of decreases in marital fertility.
(12) Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States.
(13) This paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui, in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility.
(14) A new Father of the Bride movie will see Steve Martin's curmudgeonly dad planning the upcoming nuptials of his gay son, according to reports on nikkifinke.com .
(15) More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one.
(16) In particular, it is seen that the total number of marriages in a two-sex population neither is nor should be bounded by the total numbers of marriages in the associated male and female one-sex nuptiality-mortality tables.
(17) Nuptiality and contraceptive status are shown through charts and graphs on current marital status, differentials in age at first marriage, and marital and contraceptive status.
(18) After Kim Jong-un selected Ri, his aunt Kim Kyong-hui recommended her to his late father, leader Kim Jong-il , who approved the nuptials.
(19) Our analysis shows that nuptiality levels in nineteenth century English and Welsh districts were responsive to occupational variation and that both direct and indirect effects were significant.
(20) Among the notables sighted arriving in Florence ahead of the nuptials were Steve McQueen, director of Oscar-winner 12 Years a Slave; Lala Anthony, wife of NY Knicks basketball star Carmelo Anthony; Jaden Smith, the teenage son of Will and Jada Smith; and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild fame.