Example Sentences

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What really stuck out to me about the film was how Amy was essentially being prepared for adulthood and wifehood in her home, from her cultural lens.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2020

It involves cultivating a sense of self that is has little to do with the motherhood, daughterhood, wifehood or friendship that society calls “womanhood.”

From Time • Dec. 8, 2014

On her forehead was a circle of brilliant crimson powder to signify her entry into wifehood.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2013

Hoover did have a headline-grabbing and certainly false romance with film star Dorothy Lamour, his candidate for wifehood in .

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2011

In earlier days every man might marry as many wives as he could take care of, and the length of the wifehood was solely in the husband's hand.

From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby