6 sentences with 'husbands'
Example sentences and phrases with the word husbands and other words derived from it.
• « Women were expected to be sexually monogamous with their husbands, while men's sexual relations with female slaves, as well as with other men of the same social rank, were perfectly acceptable behaviour. »
• « Widows, who were common thanks to women's young age of marriage and the death of soldier husbands, were legally autonomous and continued to run households after the husband's death. »
• « The wives of craftsmen were often themselves craftswomen, but their work was simply considered part of their husbands' production. »
• « Noblewomen were often the collaborators of their husbands or fathers - for example, it was a husband and wife team, the Lavoisiers, in France who invented the premises of modern chemistry in the 18th century. »
• « His 1804 code of laws made women legal subjects of their fathers and then their husbands, declaring that the husband was to protect his wife and the wife was to obey her husband. »
• « In turn, middle-class women suffered the consequences when their husbands, succumbing to the temptation of prostitution, brought sexually transmitted diseases into the middle-class home. »