How to Use housewife in a Sentence

housewife

noun
Definition of housewifenext
Synonyms for housewifenext
  • His father was an auto-rickshaw driver, and his mother, a housewife.
    — Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Harriet’s mother is a housewife, a woman who employs a cook and a live-in nanny, freeing her up for pastimes like bridge.
    — Rebecca Panovka, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Peter describes his father, an accountant by trade, as distant, and his mother, a housewife, as self-involved.
    — USA Today, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Lee uses Margaret’s space to show her pushback against her housewife status and her background as a landscape architect.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 June 2024
  • Connell’s mother, Elton, was a bridge-playing housewife who was active in charitable circles.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The script is breezy, the set pieces hilariously implausible, and the pair a delight as an opinionated housewife and an uptight lawyer with chemistry to spare.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Stanwyck stars yet again, now assuming the role of a columnist who chronicles her fictitious life as a housewife at a bucolic Connecticut farm.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Levitt, whose drag alter-ego is Nina West, plays the role of frumpy housewife Edna with vulnerability and subtlety.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Alongside her are listed five other visitors (a Bank of England employee, an accountant, a housewife and two children) as well as her host and two servants.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Jaymes Mansfield's cutthroat housewife as the couple defend their ruthless reign over the small town of Tuckahoe's annual Christmas pageant.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The housewife initially plead not guilty and even had her legal team file paperwork to dismiss the charges, but had a change of plans and switched to a guilty plea back in July.
    — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps a meal had been in the making by an industrious housewife.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In the 1950s, American housewives competed over who could make the most elaborate Jell-O molds.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • My paternal grandmother, Odette, was an elegant and proud Lebanese woman, housewife, and mother of four.
    — Edy Massih, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2024

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