How to Use stay-at-home in a Sentence

stay-at-home

adjective
  • My mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
  • Here are the challenges the modern stay-at-home mom faces.
    — Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Grace, 23, dreams of being a stay-at-home mom with four kids.
    — Jason Parham, Wired News, 26 May 2025
  • Sara, who was a stay-at-home mom then, welcomed the chance to live alone with the kids.
    — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Elvina, who gave birth to a daughter in the spring, is a stay-at-home mom.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The stay-at-home mom who yearns to go back to work, but can’t afford to pay for child care.
    — Reshma Saujani, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The stay-at-home boyfriend is no longer just a TikTok trend.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • There was cottage core, there was the trad wife, there was the stay-at-home girlfriend.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • My mom was a stay-at-home mom and my dad worked in retail management.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • These books include some of the most devoted stay-at-home dads in print.
    — Eric Magnuson, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Bevers first worked as a teacher and spent years being a stay-at-home mom.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, many people believe that the best way to parent is to stay-at-home.
    — Sasha Brown-Worsham, Parents, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Rachel had been a teacher, but became a stay-at-home mom after their son was born.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One woman is now a breadwinner married to a stay-at-home dad.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • As a result, the stay-at-home parent is also on the decline.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • She also got married and became a stay-at-home mom to her children.
    — Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
  • His dad had been an upholsterer, his mother a stay-at-home mom.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Betty became a stay-at-home mother to their five children.
    — Yolanda Harris, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Lindsay is a stay-at-home mom, while Robert appears to work in business.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Annette, a stay-at-home mom, took art classes at the local college.
    — Christine Pelisek, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But Mack Weldon isn't just slashing prices on its stay-at-home clothes.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • Lasha, a stay-at-home mom of three young children, lives in Florida now.
    — Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Eva Mendes and her agreement with Ryan Gosling to be a stay-at-home mom.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Keene was a stay-at-home mom who reentered the workforce since their expenses were just too much.
    — Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The stay-at-home mom is ready to get back into the small business world with a unique, manageable space.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Just 5% of fathers were stay-at-home dads at the turn of the millennium.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
  • For the next decade, Neeli was a full-time stay-at-home mom as she and her husband welcomed three more kids.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • And it's being compared to being a stay-at-home mom but the two are not synonymous.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 31 May 2024
  • Yet others may work from home, are stay-at-home parents, or have a village who can help out with child care in the home.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 5 July 2024
  • The husband shares that his wife is a stay-at-home mom to their two kids, who are now 15 and 13.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025

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