He overheard a woman on the street telling another person about her absent husband, who, she said, was an army colonel.

She didn't want to talk about the absent husband.

She was somehow prepared to receive her absent husband.

The family consists of a frequently absent husband, a wife, an older son, two younger sons, and the husband's mother.

She became a widow when her absent husband died in 1603.

Of her absent husband she thought very little, except!

You have nothing to lose but your absent husbands.

I was an absent husband most of the time.

"I can see the winter in your eyes now," she sings to her absent husband.