How to Use home economics in a Sentence

home economics

noun
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  • But one thing is that in Japan, most schools have home economics as a class.
    — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Phillips, then a high school home economics teacher in Janesville, was rapt.
    — Chris Zarate, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
  • A lot of what happens with candy is that moms didn’t make it, and there’s not home economics any more.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Jeanne Huntley, who taught high school home economics for 35 years in Sault Ste.
    — Julia Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Keeping us safe Robert Koch wasn’t the star student in his home economics class.
    — Karen Dybis, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2020
  • To put it another way, this isn’t the home economics class of yesteryear.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • His wife of 67 years, Marie, had been a home economics teacher and often made garments for their children.
    — Michael Errigo, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Weaving, a craft then taught in the home economics department, soothed his maker’s itch.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Stone’s first movie—and one of the many odd pleasures of Maniac is seeing how far Superbad’s Seth and Jules have come in the decade since home economics class.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Bristol-Joseph grew up in the tropical Georgetown, Guyana, and majored in home economics in school.
    — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
  • What also helped were the home economics classes from the orphanage.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Everett attended North Carroll High School and learned to sew in high school home economics class.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Feb. 2022
  • During its run, the At Home section in this paper was a weekly reminder of the relevance of home economics.
    — New York Times, 25 June 2021
  • One of the people featured in the cookbook is your high school home economics teacher, Donna Barnett?
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Haim grew up in Iowa, the son of a home economics teacher who taught him how to sew — unknowingly stitching the threads of his future gig — and to eat, with unironic abandon.
    — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Instead of home economics and wood shop, Coyote learned how to operate a mimeograph.
    — Bryce Dole and Zack Demars, oregonlive, 30 July 2022
  • Getting this wrong may result in a costly lesson in home economics.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • In 1921, the young painter enrolled at Howard University as a home economics student.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
  • The goal was to help Eastern European immigrant children learn trades, home economics and more.
    — Megan Sims, cleveland, 27 July 2022
  • Cooking was once a basic skill taught in home economics classes, which were often a requirement in middle or high school.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Concerns such as social work and home economics, in which women tended to specialise, were sidelined.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
  • What comes together is a story of race, class, equity, women’s roles, home economics and more.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But home economics has a much more complicated and at times surprising past.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • After selecting dresses, some girls took them to the home economics department to be hemmed, Warren said.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And so to add more cleaning and more tidying and organizing tips into these home economic classes.
    — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Of all the paradoxes in the paradoxical field known as home economics, perhaps the most peculiar is the practice house, with its practice baby.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The task force members embraced a suggestion that brands sponsor home economics classes and be more transparent with consumers about how things are made.
    — Christine Muhlke, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Her on-camera presence impressed the station’s managers, and Ms. Phillip was asked to fill in as an announcer, a weather girl and a kind of home economics correspondent.
    — Julia Carmel, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Last week, Emily Heil talked with home economics teachers about advice for cooking nutritious, thrifty meals.
    — The Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2020
  • There are still unrenovated classrooms with old slate blackboards and the remnants of home economics equipment.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 27 Mar. 2021

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