Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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wives
IPA transcription: [w'aɪvz]
Pronunciations of wives
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Usage examples
She is my wife; and you know what wives are like.
Thomas had four wives, by whom he had eight children.
"With the most charming of wives," said Dick, bowing.
Aunt Hannah and Kate and the "Talk to Young Wives" were right.
They have offered to give me other wives, but I do not want them.
Parents were separated from their children and husbands from their wives.
"He seems to think he can get wives as easily as he gets rid of them, I observe.
Perhaps he'll be killed; but then if he isn't, he'll never give us these beauties as wives.'
Married men have wives, and don't seem to want them; and young single fellows cry out that they can't get them.
At this the wives both confessed that they had each wished to prove that her husband was stupider than the other.
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