wives

Example Sentences

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"That's where everyone makes their entrance, from the celebrities, the girlfriends and wives of the drivers."

From BBC

Table by table, the circle of belief widened from friends to acquaintances, from acquaintances to strangers, until it included many prominent Rochester businessmen, doctors, ministers, wives, and children … soon reaching the famous Frederick Douglass.

From Literature

“They were all able to do what they did because of wives or partners or friends or college classmates, who did a lot of the work without being household names,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

"They were incredible sisters, mothers, wives and friends. And the idea that they are both gone is, I don't even know how to put it into words."

From BBC

I and two male friends dated quite a bit, but we all wondered why our future wives thought we were good enough to marry.

From The Wall Street Journal