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Example sentences for: wives

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With hardly any women present in the colony, the Portuguese soldiers took Indian wives.
He doesn't even give the full names of his various wives.
Now angry former wives are organizing outreach groups, and vast polygamous clans are facing charges of pedophilia and sexual abuse.
I suppose that Miss Lonelyhearts should count as West's masterpiece, due to the fantastic procession of importuning advice-hounds that traipses across its pages--a procession of battered wives, crippled cuckolded husbands, syphilitic children, rape victims, and deformed teen-agers whose sufferings could break your heart--except that West's demeanor makes the whole thing slightly funny, as in a sick joke.
The LAT says the crowd appeared to number "well over half a million people" and that it "contained large numbers of blacks and other minorities, as well as wives and other women."