wives

Example Sentences

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Dove is the bound-foot daughter of an imperial scholar who came to the city to become one of the locked-away wives of a decades-older merchant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Further down the hill in the centre of Baden-Baden, the arrival of their wives and girlfriends caused even more of a stir.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Usually wives and husbands divide their separate property among their heirs and their second spouse, but there’s no rule that says they must do that.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

These portrayals were part of an even longer history of depicting wives as nags and harridans, a narrative device that can be found in the Old Testament.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

And now with so many immigrant men at war, no longer needing a place to stay in Chicago, immigrant wives lost the extra money the family had taken in from boarders.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield