English example sentences with "wives"

Learn how to use wives in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.

In all times and places many examples of poor relations between wives and mothers-in-law can be seen.

Many families now have two breadwinners with both husbands and wives working.

These days more young husbands help their wives with housework.

It is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.

Wives usually outlive husbands.

When we think of the traditional roles of men and women in society, we think of husbands supporting the family, and wives taking care of the house and children.

Some Japanese wives are content to leave their husbands alone.

Husbands and wives should stand by each other throughout their lives.

Many wives complain about high prices.

"Gang Wives" is a Yakuza movie released in 1986 by Toei Distribution Network.

In some societies, wives are still considered the property of their husbands.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

It is not crime against God in Islam that a man has two or more wives.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Husbands and wives should help each other as long as they live.

Forget about your wives!

Why should we not love our own wives? We do love other people's wives.

Why should we not love our own wives? We do love other people's wives.

In Paris and elsewhere, in the summer, husbands send their wives and children somewhere to escape the heat and they customarily leave to visit them on Saturday evening until Sunday.

Wealthy older men often marry younger trophy wives.

After the invasion, Viking men took English wives and fathered children with the result that their daughters learned correct English from their mothers, and their sons learned bad English from their fathers, who hadn’t been in the country long enough to master the language.

The young wives of old husbands have the habit of thinking early on about choosing the one who will wipe their widow tears.

How many wives does this Mormon have?

Not only the workers, but also their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters older than four are being cruelly exploited.

None of them have wives.

You hid your worries from your wives, didn't you?

We hid our worries from our wives.

They hid their worries from their wives.

Of the five wives he had, three were unfaithful.

You left your wives, didn't you?

We left our wives.

They left their wives.

You miss your wives, don't you?

We miss our wives.

They miss their wives.

If I were a sultan, I'd have three wives!

"Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari" is a very good movie.

The sexist lyrics of the 1963 song "Wives and Lovers" are, by today's standards, objectionable - to say the least.

Are their wives permitted to see them?

We wives have to stick together.

Have each of your wives bake a loaf of bread by tomorrow morning.

Have each of your wives weave a rug by tomorrow.

The two elder brothers arrived first with their wives, beautiful, bright, and cheerful, and dressed in rich garments.

The wives of the two elder brothers watched her and did exactly the same.

Some people only get married to prevent their wives from marrying somebody else.

How many wives have you had?

Priests don't have wives.

Bring your help to the citizens, and to their wives and children.

You left your wives.

Our wives went shopping together.

Tom and I both have Canadian wives.

Both Tom and I have Canadian wives.

Tom outlived three wives.

Tom and John miss their wives and children.

Tom and John might bring their wives and children with them.

Tom and John never discuss their work with their wives.

Tom and John say they miss their wives and children.

I know Tom and John, but I've never met their wives.

I know Tom and John, but I don't know their wives.

Tom and John showed me pictures of their wives.

Tom and John moved to Boston with their wives.

Sooth, then, shall she return / to Sparta and Mycenae, ay, and see / home, husband, sons and parents, safe and free, / with Ilian wives and Phrygians in her train, / a queen, in pride of triumph? Shall this be, / and Troy have blazed and Priam's self been slain, / and Trojan blood so oft have soaked the Dardan plain?

How many wives has Tom had?

Tom has had three wives. They were all Canadians.

Tom and John both moved to Australia with their wives.

Both Tom and John moved to Australia with their wives.

Sami has four wives.

Tom has outlived three wives.

Give me my wives, and my children, for whom I have served thee, that I may depart: thou knowest the service that I have rendered thee.

Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc. And when all things were brought over that belonged to him, he remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.

And going into the gate of the city, they spoke to the people: These men are peaceable, and are willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.

And their children and wives they took captive.

And Esau took his wives, and his sons and daughters, and every soul of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and all that he was able to acquire in the land of Canaan: and went into another country, and departed from his brother Jacob.

And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.

Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed.

And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

All the souls that went with Jacob into Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.

Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.

And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

And Noah went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And God spoke to Noah, saying: Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons with thee. All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.

So Noah went out, he and his sons: his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.

In the selfsame day Noah, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.

Husbands and wives argue.

And Moses came down from the mount to the people, and sanctified them. And when they had washed their garments, he said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

Algerian Arabs veil their sisters and their wives but spend their time watching pornographic films.

Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too.

Why don't men help their wives with child-rearing?

"How many wives to you have?" "Why don't you just mind your own business?"

"Are you Muslim?" "Yes." "How many wives do you have?" "And how many husbands does your wife have? Listen. Why don't you just mind your own business?"

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