wives
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He was lucky not to be caught, but he is devastated because his two wives and other children were not so lucky.
From BBC
He said they talked to wives separated from husbands and their kids and the most frequent feedback they got “was the inadequacy of the medical care they were receiving.”
From Los Angeles Times
There, she lived with a woman, the Shakespearean actress Charlotte Cushman; the book throughout refers to the pair as wives.
Two embassy wives, played by Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, embrace their Person of No Interest status to take on the KGB as spies in Peacock’s sparky, soulful series.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, when their husbands die, ostensibly in a plane crash, Bea and Twila are grief-stricken — they have lost not only their husbands but their careers as foreign service wives.
From Los Angeles Times
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