marry up (something)

Examples of marrying

marrying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Given this problem, we do not feel confident making any claims about the historical trends in proportions of foundlings marrying.
Her father's prohibiting any of his children from marrying may be seen as his wish not to have heirs of mixed blood.
It would be too much of a coincidence if these differences in detail reflected different modes of marrying.
We limit our own autonomy every time we make a promise or enter into a contract, for example, by marrying.
Broadly speaking, it meant marrying supply to demand without the use of the price mechanism.
It demonstrates that in all populations the chances of a woman's marrying by age thirty was strongly influenced by her sibling position.
He replied that he had not been thinking of marrying at all until he met her and was therefore prepared to wait.
Marrying would be all right if it was the way they do it in the pictures, but real life isn't like that.
We think that there may be benefit in marrying static analysis with dynamic sequential profiling information at compile time.
Together with the move when marrying, this means that three or four moves were due to advancement within the social hierarchy that characterized rural life.
The higher the educational level of a woman of a particular age, the lower her chance of marrying into a polygynous union.
In six cases patients changed their minds because there unexpectedly appeared to be some hope of eventually marrying the father of the baby.
Chances of marrying, having children, forming a new household, and dying were all affected by a person's relationship to the head of the household.
This loss is compounded through the traditional taboo against marrying a husband within the same village (village endogamy).
The inconsistency in the author's argument usefully serves to highlight a weakness which could support the position of those never marrying.
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