How to Use husband and wife in a Sentence

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Definition of husband and wifenext
  • Ultimately, Wagner sentenced the husband and wife to one year of probation.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
  • Wilkinson and his wife, actress Diana Hardcastle, also played husband and wife onscreen in the miniseries.
    — EW.com, 29 June 2024
  • The husband and wife were dead by the time they were found.
    — Fox 19 Digital Team, The Enquirer, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Jim Miller was one of the neighbors who raced to save the husband and wife.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The husband and wife duo also share singing duties in the car.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • And in the second group were husband and wife duos Kristy and Brett and Leah and Ash.
    — Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The husband and wife who had been apart during their 20s and 30s did not feel like strangers.
    — Carol Rosenberg Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • In 1988, husband and wife combined their practices and formed the firm of Brown and Brown.
    — Ann Hill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2024
  • As the light came over the horizon, Dylan and Austyn got in his 4Runner to drive off of the ranch as husband and wife.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 June 2024
  • One pair of victims are a husband and wife, the sheriff said.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 June 2024
  • But even then, the husband and wife perform the same amount of time on household chores each week.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Although clearly not all is well with the soon to be husband and wife.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The news of them being husband and wife didn’t break until 2021.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And at the end of the day, Jeezy and I really just wanted to become husband and wife.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Lopez showed off the new ink, which the the duo got to celebrate their first Valentine’s Day as husband and wife.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The GoFundMe page for the husband and wife can be found here, for the mother and her two young sons here and for the mother of the 7-year-old here.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2024
  • The Biebers attended their first Met Gala as husband and wife.
    — ELLE, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The project was conceived and built by the husband and wife, with even their son Colby turning a screw or two.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Dear Miss Manners: Some good friends of ours, a husband and wife, have a painting of the wife in their living room.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The track marked the sixth time the husband and wife duo collaborated on the same song, aside from their work with Migos.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, the husband and wife even appeared together in an episode of White Collar in 2011.
    — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The husband and wife delivered the first Mental Health First Aid course in 2000 to people in their hometown.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The husband and wife were both ejected from their vehicle.
    — Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2024
  • The show follows a husband and wife who are trying to get pregnant while filming their HGTV show.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The young husband and wife had held each other in the jungle, sleeping without even a blanket.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
  • The young husband and wife had held each other in the jungle, sleeping without even a blanket.
    — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
  • The husband and wife team had to wait until the race was finished at 6PM before they could be recovered.
    — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The tension mounts, and soon husband and wife are having an ugly, petty fight.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The husband and wife team were strategic in diving into this niche Airbnb market.
    — Yelena Alpert, House Beautiful, 28 May 2023
  • The husband and wife duo are the minds behind Kasama, located in Chicago, Illinois.
    — Emily Rochotte, Redbook, 20 July 2023

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