How to Use housewife in a Sentence

housewife

noun
  • Even my mother, a housewife who grew up on a farm.
    — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Even my mother, a housewife who grew up on a farm.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Only one housewife has won the show.
    — Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Wang Hui-chun, on the other hand, is a housewife.
    — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The housewives talk about kids and start to develop a bond.
    — Paul Edward Parker, The Providence Journal, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Yvonne was housewife for most of her life, but was a woman of many talents.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 June 2018
  • Stephanie Shojaee is a first-time housewife.
    — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That’s clear from the moment the housewives start to arrive.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The episode wraps with the second of two housewives fundraisers.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
  • What could these bourgeois housewives know about pleasing a man?
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Cookbooks urged housewives to sweeten cakes with syrup left over from canned fruit.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • What was the reason behind the shift, and which new housewife has stood out to you?
    — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Tune in to the exciting premiere to see what the housewives are up to next.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
  • The housewife, who lives a few minutes' walk from the mosque, had gone to attend evening prayers.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 11 May 2021
  • Dressed to kill, the housewives put their best foot forward in the images below.
    — Essence, 1 Nov. 2019
  • His mother, then a housewife, returned to the fields to shoulder the cost.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Her mother, a housewife, dropped her off at school in a Mercedes.
    — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The streamer also teased what’s in store for each of their housewives across the new season.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
  • Two of the victims were shot and one, an innocent housewife, was buried alive.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • That deal is named after a game show in which housewives would tell sob stories in exchange for prizes.
    — Jeremy Stahl, Slate Magazine, 20 June 2017
  • The term was then applied to hints that made day-to-day life easier and not just for housewives.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Loretta, his mother, was a housewife.
    — John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The high drama of housewives bickering about who said what over a bottle of wine.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There was a series of 1950s housewives that were all thrown at me at the same time.
    — Renée Fleming, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Lopez plays the part of a ’50s housewife in a floral print dress and a dainty string of pearls.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Candy was a housewife and Betty had worked as a school teacher.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • The assumption is that employees have a spouse who is a full-time housewife back home.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • Their solution was an ad campaign selling beer to housewives—not to drink it but to cook with it.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Melissa’s friend Rachel Fuda joins the cast as a new housewife.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Julianne Moore playing a housewife struggling to break out of her malaise?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026

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