The word 'wives' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a group of married women. For example, "The women received gifts from their husbands and wives".
She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
It shifts her gaze to the US in 12 stories that explore the experiences of husbands and wives, parents and children, immigrants and permanent residents.
(One recent survey found that school pupils thought men taking their wives' surnames would demonstrate a "weak character" but the reverse would show women were "grown-up").
Sarah Vine (aka Mrs Michael Gove) says in the Daily Mail that the Tories can win the election by listening more to their wives.
The furor over Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comments had finally settled down when a Republican governor appeared at a Romney rally to praise Republican wives.
Holby's consultant surgeon has had five wives, a gambling addiction and lost a son to heroin overdose.
My mother and sister stayed with my brothers' wives and children in Damascus.
When the conversion of numbers 1, 2 and 3 Cornwall Terrace – acquired last year for £120m by Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, one of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir of Qatar – is complete, the resulting palace is expected to be London's first £200m-plus pad.
He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their out-houses could hear him breathe.
The wedding was the next day, and it was at some extravagant resort off in the desert outside Phoenix, and every defence contractor in the state of Arizona was there, and they all had wives with the hair and the bosoms out to here.
Now, it has transformed the way the men see their wives.
