How to Use domesticity in a Sentence

domesticity

noun
  • We got married and settled into a life of comfortable domesticity.
  • The death of the girl boss was the birth of the trad boss who turns domesticity into a career.
    — Abigail Anthony, National Review, 11 Feb. 2024
  • His dreams of domesticity go up in smoke when the birth of their third child goes the way of Aemma's.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The song of the same name, like so many of her others, is about pining for classic domesticity.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Want to come up with a cute name for your brand that conveys Latina domesticity?
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • He was never very plugged into, any kind of, uh, domesticity.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The book can seem like a pamphlet warning against domesticity.
    — John Williams, New York Times, 3 July 2017
  • And though she's been loyal to the brand for many years, the doyenne of domesticity also says her routine changes all the time.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 June 2023
  • Cusk and Lahiri know that motherhood and domesticity will eat you alive.
    — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
  • Naomi has all the strength and conviction, and Suzie has all the soft warmth and domesticity.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The others, however, know deep down that they weren't meant for domesticity.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The boredom of domesticity has settled in its place, and Giselle is itching for change.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Early images in the white women's series are heavy on domesticity, then there's a change.
    — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Is she trapped in domesticity, or do the doors represent infinite ways out?
    — Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The privations of the front lines sometimes yield a bizarre yet tender domesticity.
    — Nils Adler, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The removal of the jacket allows for the domesticity that K craves.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • Growing up, in Jerusalem, Kassis had been wary of the kitchen, and of the ways in which domesticity might trap her.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The joys of domesticity are a far cry from Miller’s last stopover in Portland as a 19-year-old.
    — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the end, however, all the domesticity in the world could not save Pollock from himself.
    — airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • This design makes sense, as the front door is typically not used for entry these days, but as a marker of domesticity.
    — Anthony Alofsin, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
  • More than 150 years later, people still want to project a version of that rich domesticity.
    — Mac Schwerin, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The film centers around a woman who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, their mother abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • There are no signs of domesticity except a calendar.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • All the more shocking, then, when the curtain of domesticity is pushed aside to reveal the man in the black ski mask standing outside the window.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The truth is, plenty happens beneath the warm duvet of domesticity.
    — Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • In that case, perhaps the stones were nothing more than symbolic fencing — to keep the wild world away from humankind’s new domesticity.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Part of you may just want to snuggle up at home since loving Venus slides into your zone of domesticity Tuesday.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 2 July 2017
  • Nearly two and a half decades later, many of the same arguments about managing work and domesticity are still being thrashed out.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019

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