Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

husband

[huhz-buhnd] / ˈhʌz bənd /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Aged 17, Nirmala had come to Leeds to join her husband, whose family had already settled there.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

She gets him within spitting distance of Downing Street just in time for her husband to dump her.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Kent is grateful for the upbringing and support his parents gave him while also teaching him how to be a husband, father and now grandfather.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Jacqueline Villafranca, 38, from Peru, told AFP she was evacuated in about an hour on Friday evening from the village of Navalagamella to Alcobendas with her husband and two daughters, aged 16 and two.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

When Tía Mazal tells Naomi our plans, she says, “And you and baby Preciada and your husband must come with us.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

But over the years, 41 women directly followed their deceased husbands into the lower chamber.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

When the possessive and paranoid Frank Ford runs into Margaret as she’s scurrying to meet his wife, Alice, he pointedly remarks, “I think, if your husbands were dead, you two would marry.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

“I realized a lot of wives were wishing their husbands were there and they weren’t,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

"For everyone here, it's not easy. I see what my friends are going through. They're watching their husbands change."

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

“Let us,” Lincoln declared, “make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives’ bonnets to church.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

But he seemed diffident about them when we spoke and finally admitted that since the pandemic began all of his carefully husbanded nervousness has been consumed by life rather than work.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2020

For centuries the Venetian republic husbanded its natural resources, keeping the lagoon from filling in through sedimentation and protecting its water quality.

From The Guardian Dec. 10, 2019

He married Paula Schwartz in 1983, and with her he tenderly husbanded the land, planting an effusion of flora.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2019

After his parents divorced, Folkert’s mom did yard work and landscaping and cleaned houses to earn money — which she husbanded with care.

From Seattle Times Jan. 27, 2018

Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The glimpse reminded voters that Davis, who was husbanding his resources for a late advertising push, was still in the race.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

China did this by building up domestic industries, developing alternative sources for scarce inputs and carefully husbanding its strengths in areas where they saw a chance to seize control.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

Allies allow you to project power while husbanding your own resources.

From Salon Mar. 5, 2025

"The greater risk environment for financials leads to husbanding of capital and risk-taking, less and more conservative investing and lending, and inevitably, lower growth," said Blankfein, who also served as Goldman's chairman, told Reuters.

From Reuters Mar. 20, 2023

Aragorn let them drift with the stream as they wished, husbanding their strength against weariness to come.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




Vocabulary lists containing husband


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training