Below you will find example sentences with "first wife". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

First Wife in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: wife
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.9 words

Words in this phrase

first wife

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • first can mean: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. Very common word
  • wife can mean: A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

after his first wife died childless 1× aristocracy the first wife is never 1× by his first wife 1× by his first wife mae ginn 1× by his first wife to look 1× cash s first wife was all 1× my first wife passed away 1× my first wife pursued a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

my first wife 2× charles has four 1× earl spencer has 1× he asks john 1× he died at 1× he falsely claimed 1×

Common sentence endings:

his first wife 2× his second wife 2× a first wife 1× and prayer partner 1× bearing a son 1× forgotten by hollywood 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

children 8× spencer 7× daughter 6× lady 5× two 5× married 4× son 4× winn 4× marriage 3× four 3× fitzwilliam 3× country 2×

Related phrases

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings first phase first nations first amendment first sight

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around wife:

wife mary 6×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first wave first volume first visit first two first try first trip

Just after it in the phrase index:

first woman fiscal deficit fiscal policy fiscal year fish stocks fisher scientific

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings

Same ending:

beloved wife devoted wife

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first wife" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after his first wife died childless, aristocracy the first wife is never, children, spencer and daughter stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round and wife mary, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first wife

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

He shares three children with his wife Julie, and two more with his first wife. (15 words)

Long years after the divorce with his first wife, Femi met his current wife Omotayo Memunat. (16 words)

Charles has four children with his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, and two children with his second wife, Caroline Freud. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

She has two other women to help steer her through womanhood, motherhood, and sexual pleasure (Nu Yên-Khê Tran’s first wife Ha and Mai Thu Huong Maya’s second wife Xuan) and a future of comfort awaiting her with but one goal: bearing a son. (46 words)

New documentary tells the story of first wife of country music star Johnny CashDespite being thrown into the public eye for most of her marriage to a country music star, Johnny Cash's first wife was all but forgotten by Hollywood. (41 words)

K. Paparrigopoulos, Aa, 221 The name of his first wife is not known; the only information about her is that she was the wife of Hipponicus, before being married to Pericles, and the mother of Callias from this first marriage. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Meanwhile, while Emeka divorced his wife, Emma, before remarrying his German-based South African wife, Yolanda Pfeiffer, Yul was married to his first wife, May, when he welcomed a son with his colleague Judy and later married her.

Within the aristocracy, the first wife is never the main wife a second wife who has a higher pedigree will take precedence.

My first wife passed away in 2003, but I was blessed to be able to later marry a wonderful lady who was my first wife’s close friend and prayer partner.

New documentary tells the story of first wife of country music star Johnny CashDespite being thrown into the public eye for most of her marriage to a country music star, Johnny Cash's first wife was all but forgotten by Hollywood.

K. Paparrigopoulos, Aa, 221 The name of his first wife is not known; the only information about her is that she was the wife of Hipponicus, before being married to Pericles, and the mother of Callias from this first marriage.

Charles has four children with his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, and two children with his second wife, Caroline Freud.

Earl Spencer has four children with his first wife, Lady Kitty Spencer, Lady Eliza Spencer, Lady Amelia Spencer, Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and two children with his second wife, Edmund Spencer and Lady Lara Spencer.

He falsely claimed for years that his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver, when in fact, police actually believed Biden’s late first wife was at fault.

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He had a teenage daughter in Scotland from a previous marriage with his first wife, and a four-year-old daughter, Athea, in Croatia from his second wife.

Mr. Winn was preceded in death by his first wife Mae Ginn Winn, his second wife Norma Yarley Warren Winn, and by a grandson Walter Winn.

She has two other women to help steer her through womanhood, motherhood, and sexual pleasure (Nu Yên-Khê Tran’s first wife Ha and Mai Thu Huong Maya’s second wife Xuan) and a future of comfort awaiting her with but one goal: bearing a son.

He shares three children with his wife Julie, and two more with his first wife.

Long years after the divorce with his first wife, Femi met his current wife Omotayo Memunat.

My first wife pursued a doctoral degree at my encouragement, and my second wife who already had a stellar professional career successfully has pursued additional avenues of achievement with my encouragement.

He asks John, his son by his first wife, to look after (meaning ensure the financial security of) his second wife and their three daughters.

He died at Batavia on 10 October 1659 and was survived by his second wife and a daughter by his first wife.

He had been married twice and had three children; a son with his first wife, Samuel, and two children, Addis Alem and Tabor, with his second wife.

In 1677, 17 months after the death of his first wife, Wren remarried, this time to Jane Fitzwilliam, daughter of William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam citation and his wife Jane Perry, the daughter of a prosperous London merchant.

Khả had nine children—six sons and three daughters by his second wife, Phạm Thị Thân, after his first wife died childless.

Many other conditions might also be inserted: such as that the wife should act as maidservant to her mother-in-law or to a first wife.

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