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two people who are married to each other
his second marriage was happier than the first
a married couple without love
How To Use man and wife In A Sentence
- The love between man and wife, therefore, apparently presupposes man and wife treating one another as equal, autonomous beings.
- Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
- Meanwhile, the marriage bed with its bright red curtains evokes the physical act of love which, according to Christian doctrine, is an essential part of the perfect union of man and wife.
- Now total all this up for man and wife and see what you gt, plus lousy servie and lst minuted canceling of your flight and you must be some place to catch the ccomumter flight to your hunt sight. A Better Way to Travel
- They always had been fond of each other and they lived very happily as man and wife. Heidi
- Perhaps most representative of this ambiguity is the kiss that concludes the wedding ceremony, permission for which is granted only after bride and groom have been legally transformed into man and wife. The Wedding Merchants
- As Marian and Lewes continued to live together as man and wife, people generally began to accept them as a married couple.
- Shortly after they became man and wife Tom began to show the cloven foot.
- Twenty minutes later, the TV cameramen all but ambushed Camilla and Charles as they emerged from the Guildhall as man and wife.
- They always had been fond of each other and they lived very happily as man and wife. Heidi