Fishwives is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fishwives in a sentence
Fishwives meaning
plural of fishwife
Using Fishwives
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of fishwife
Context around Fishwives
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fishwives
- In this selection, "fishwives" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gentlemen and take stand out and add context to how "fishwives" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include me here fishwives take me and singers gentlemen fishwives and tavern. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fishwives" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fishwives
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Please don’t leave me here, fishwives, take me with you. (11 words)
His pictures illustrate the various strata of society: banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlemen, fishwives, and tavern heroes. (29 words)
His pictures illustrate the various strata of society: banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlemen, fishwives, and tavern heroes. (29 words)
Please don’t leave me here, fishwives, take me with you. (11 words)
Example sentences (2)
Please don’t leave me here, fishwives, take me with you.
His pictures illustrate the various strata of society: banquets or meetings of officers, guildsmen, local councilmen from mayors to clerks, itinerant players and singers, gentlemen, fishwives, and tavern heroes.