HUSBAND in a Sentence

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354 example sentences for HUSBAND, such as:

1. Happy birthday to my husband.
2. A good husband makes a good wife.
3. She regarded her husband with wide eyes.
4. Her husband felt ashamed at her behavior.
5. Her husband stopped short at sight of her.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUSBAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
husband
 n.  the man that a woman is married to; a married man
 v.  use something carefully so that you do not use all of it; use economically
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "You might 'a' shook off that snow outside," she said to her husband.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  Her husband hardly heard what she was saying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  Though she was but seven years her husband's senior, and he was only twenty-eight, she was already an old woman.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  Her husband, without stopping to hear the end of the phrase, had left the kitchen and sprung up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift for silence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  So, Ellen, no longer Robillard, turned her back on Savannah, never to see it again, and with a middle-aged husband, Mammy, and twenty "house niggers" journeyed toward Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Ellen's tired mouth smiled into the tumult as she addressed herself first to her husband, as a wife should.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  But it gave Gerald pleasure to air his views, and Ellen was unfailingly thoughtful of her husband's pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
16  Her husband was unsympathetic and she felt she had no one to turn to.
17  Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit.
18  I feel my husband is very insensitive about my problem.
19  She comforted herself with the view that her husband would come back in a few days.
20  Her husband's such a chauvinist that he tries to tell her how to vote.
21  Happy birthday to my husband.
22  Whatever his shortcomings as a husband, he was a good father to his children.
23  She regarded her husband with wide eyes.
24  A good husband makes a good wife.
25  The woman bundled away when her husband returned.
26  Mary denounced her husband for bad behavior.
27  Her husband felt ashamed at her behavior.
28  Fay's always making excuses for her husband's odd behavior.
29  My husband was made redundant late last year.
30  She is attempting to contact her estranged husband to break the news.