Example sentences for: husbands

How can you use “husbands” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If any couple could have synthesized the impulses to rove and stay put, it's this one, but Beaufoy throws in the towel at the point where the husbands and wives of A Walk on the Moon and Metroland are just getting warmed up.

  • Widowhood wins votes: Between 1916 and 1993, "84 percent of first-time female candidates for the House who were running to succeed their dead husbands won their races."

  • Conversely, pro-choicers accept the culture of motherhood and accuse pro-lifers of defiling it by forcing women to bear the offspring not of their husbands but of their rapists.

  • Stoltzfus, writing of the 2,000 Berlin women who marched down Rosenstrasse in 1943 to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands, sees that his case is something less than a study in pure virtue: Germans cared nothing for Jews unless self-interest intervened.

  • Farr has studied the joking behavior of Mexican women in Chicago and found that through echando relajo, married and young single women find relief from their gender roles and the social propriety imposed by their husbands, parents, and the Mexican culture.


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