WIFE in a Sentence

Learn WIFE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

415 example sentences for WIFE, such as:

1. Happy birthday to my wife.
2. A bad husband makes a bad wife.
3. As is the husband, so is the wife.
4. The king banished his wife from his bed.
5. Then the door opened and he saw his wife.

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 Meanings and Examples of WIFE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
wife
 n.  a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  It was his wife who had suggested, when the girl came to live with them, that such opportunities should be put in her way.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  His wife had never shown any jealousy of Mattie, but of late she had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
4  "Well, when she gets married, I mean," his wife's drawl came from behind him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
5  Then the door opened and he saw his wife.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
6  He felt as if he had never before known what his wife looked like.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
7  It is powerful cold down here, Ethan assented; and with lowered head he went up in his wife's wake, and followed her across the threshold of their room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
8  His accounts revealed merely what the means had been; and these were such that it was fortunate for his wife and daughter that his books were examined only after his impressive funeral.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
9  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
10  He became suddenly conscious that he was looking at Mattie while Zeena talked to him, and with an effort he turned his eyes to his wife.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
11  As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  If he glued it together the next morning months might elapse before his wife noticed what had happened, and meanwhile he might after all be able to match the dish at Shadd's Falls or Bettsbridge.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
14  "Jotham Powell brought some goods over from the Flats for his wife, and he drove right on home with them," she explained.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
15  His wife looked so hard and lonely, sitting there in the darkness with such thoughts.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (205 in 14 pages)
16  As is the husband, so is the wife.
17  In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
18  He is used to a lot of attention from his wife, which will inevitably lessen when the baby is born.
19  You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.
20  A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor.
21  A bad husband makes a bad wife.
22  A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
23  His second marriage was annulled because he never divorced his first wife.
24  The king banished his wife from his bed.
25  My wife and I are very delighted to hear the news of your marriage.
26  He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.
27  He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
28  Happy birthday to my wife.
29  Husband and wife turned coldly accusing backs toward each other.
30  His wife's death brought a change to pass in his attitude toward religion.