Dowery used in a sentence

Dowery in a sentence as a noun

He had no car, never eatout, and had a lot of roommates, but he wanted to save up for his sisters dowery.

They seem to have had a variety of views on the acceptability of homosexual sex, polygamy, age of consent, the line between endogamy and ******, acceptability of eunuchs/"third sexes", bride price v. dowery, etc. etc. but none of them really come close a modern Western sexual ethic of consent.

Would you buy a kidney to save your child from a poor person in China or India who's selling it to pay their rent or their daughter's dowery, who's being exploited by the middleman who's taking most of what you pay?I agree there are often conflicting moral pulls that must be weighed.

A less personally-beneficial alternative would be some sort of modern dowery, the recipient of which is Moche Silnorin Inc, who holds on to the money until the culmination of the marriage, after which the dowery is given to the wife and so reunited with its giver once they share finances.