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Example sentences for: wife

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At 8:59, Flight 175 passenger Brian David Sweeney tried to call his wife, Julie.
Flynt himself says in his recent autobiography, An Unseemly Man , that he continued self-medicating even after his wife overdosed--indeed, until after his most recent nerve-cauterizing operation, which was in March 1994.
Actor-director-writer Robert Duvall's film--about a Pentecostal preacher who beats his wife's lover into a coma--is deemed "the best movie ever about a man of God" (David Denby, New York ). The film's strength is said to be its uncompromising psychological complexity: It shows the preacher as both very good and extremely evil, without lapsing into moral condemnation.
At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."
In 1994 and 1995, I collected a number of examples of "OJ" in the sense "to beat one's wife or girlfriend," and debated entering the term in the second volume of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang , which I was editing at the time.