Wives is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wives meaning
- plural of wife
- genitive of wife
Using Wives
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of wife | genitive of wife
- In the example corpus, wives often appears in combinations such as: wives and, their wives, sister wives.
Context around Wives
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wives
- In this selection, "wives" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sister, eight, seven, season, common and too stand out and add context to how "wives" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accustomed his wives to dialogue and and many wives lost husbands. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wives" sits close to words such as bloody, cycling and grip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wives
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many husbands lost wives and many wives lost husbands. (9 words)
Children of Zeus and his seven wives Zeus married seven wives. (11 words)
Sister Wives star Kody Brown's wives, past and present, have something in common. (14 words)
Sister Wives Season 19: Latest News, Cast, & Everything We KnowEven though there are no sister wives in the Brown family anymore, reports suggest that the Sister Wives will return with a more dramatic season 19. (35 words)
A proposal by the Army to impart training to wives of officers in order to equip them better to deal with the changing societal environment has attracted sharp criticism from many quarters, especially Army wives. (35 words)
The impact evaluation found that 21 months after the intervention, women experienced less intimate partner violence, men went to more antenatal clinic visits with their wives, and men reported better supporting their wives during pregnancy. (35 words)
Why couldn't you have been good sister wives when you were sister wives? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sister Wives Season 19: Latest News, Cast, & Everything We KnowEven though there are no sister wives in the Brown family anymore, reports suggest that the Sister Wives will return with a more dramatic season 19.
Of the Black victims who knew their offenders, 60 percent were wives, common-law wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends of the offenders.
For instance, my grandfather had eight wives, that’s paternal and my maternal grandfather had about seven or eight wives too.
He has questioned polygamy after living the lifestyle for 30 years and has shown Sister Wives viewers everything that can (and did) go wrong when a husband takes on multiple wives.
Sister Wives star Kody Brown's wives, past and present, have something in common.
The wives who choose to have a career or must have a career to make ends meet can still be good mothers and wives.
Why couldn't you have been good sister wives when you were sister wives?
A proposal by the Army to impart training to wives of officers in order to equip them better to deal with the changing societal environment has attracted sharp criticism from many quarters, especially Army wives.
Many husbands lost wives and many wives lost husbands.
On tonight’s Sister Wives season 14 episode 7 as per the TLC synopsis, “Janelle moves (again) to be closer to her Sister Wives.
To support me, he would have said (since we were the postwar generation, when husbands took care of their wives, and the wives were grateful).
The ceremony attracted the Chaplain of the school, the Archdeacon’s wives, the Director of the school, clergy’s wives and the general public.
The impact evaluation found that 21 months after the intervention, women experienced less intimate partner violence, men went to more antenatal clinic visits with their wives, and men reported better supporting their wives during pregnancy.
Our forefathers had more wives because they used their wives and their many children to work on their farms.
According to Nihongi, he had six wives; but Kojiki only gives five wives, identifying the third consort to the sixth one.
But according to court chroniclers, his relationship with his other wives was more out of political consideration and they enjoyed only the status of being royal wives.
Children of Zeus and his seven wives Zeus married seven wives.
He is also said to have had accustomed his wives to dialogue; he listened to their advice, and the wives debated and even argued with him.
Later, Esau marries two wives, both Hittite women, that is, locals, in violation of Abraham's (and God's) injunction not to take wives from among the Canaanite population.
Senior wives teach junior wives how to operate the family, granting financial security and ensuring that the children will never be orphaned.
Common combinations with wives
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- wives and 36×
- their wives 30×
- sister wives 28×
- the wives 19×
- wives of 13×
- his wives 8×
- other wives 7×
- wives who 6×
- and wives 6×
- wives to 6×