How to Use housewife in a Sentence

housewife

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Definition of housewifenext
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  • His father was a house painter and his mother a housewife.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The acclaimed ’60s film is about a young man who becomes torn between a bored older housewife and her daughter.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The new season also welcomes new housewife Elizabeth Lyn Vargas, who is shown struggling to find her place among the group.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Lucy, over-the-top housewife Lucy and Ricky, her excitable husband, were always getting into some sort of entertaining hijinks.
    — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Natalie, a pregnant housewife, is just days away from giving birth when an infected stranger breaks into her home and kills her husband, biting Natalie and infecting her in turn.
    — Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • She’s a naïve housewife in a way that feels very 1960s.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 22 June 2021
  • Tune in to the exciting premiere to see what the housewives are up to next.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
  • If, in 1963, Patricia is the earnest naïf of the claque of housewives, Charlene is the wild card.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • His mother, then a housewife, returned to the fields to shoulder the cost.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The housewife, who lives a few minutes' walk from the mosque, had gone to attend evening prayers.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 11 May 2021
  • To Poulain’s dismay, the home has become a workplace where the housewife toils alone.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • Melissa’s friend Rachel Fuda joins the cast as a new housewife.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The matriarch of the Arnold home wanted more out of life than just being a housewife.
    — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Biel plays a 1980s housewife with a dark side in Hulu's Candy.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And the show offers a new direction for the former housewives to be their sparkling selves, without as much of the mess.
    — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This housewife seems to do everything but stay at home.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
  • Fantasy has always been the province of the bored housewife.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Cynthia Bailey will also return to the season, this time, as a friend of the housewives.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 31 July 2024
  • Candy was a housewife and Betty had worked as a school teacher.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Kyle Richards wants Chrissy Teigen as a fellow housewife.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In the movie, Banks, 48, plays Joy, a housewife whose pregnancy has a 50% chance of endangering her life.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Whitfield was, and always will be, loved as an OG Atlanta housewife.
    — Krystyna Chavez, Glamour, 31 July 2023
  • For 15 years, Cheryl assumed the anonymity of a suburban housewife.
    — Stephanie Mansfield, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • My mother was a housewife raising her three kids, including me, the youngest.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Lady Killer is about Josie Schuller, a picture-perfect 1950s housewife who has a secret life as a killer for hire.
    — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 5 May 2021
  • Wilde also discussed the amount of work that went into making the film, as well as playing the character of a 1950s housewife.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
  • An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a ’66 Thunderbird.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But this is not the 1950s of Hollywood cliché; not happy housewives or bullet bras or even the very structured New Look of Dior himself.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Jacqueline Blake is back as a friend of the housewives, and Jassi Rideaux will also join as a friend of, both bringing their own mix of sass and surprises.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Munni Ghosh, a Hindu housewife in Dhaka, said that attacks have grown since Hasina fled.
    — Krutika Pathi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024

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