How to use housewife in a sentence

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• In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.From the entry bake
• Groups of businessmen, housewives, classmates or neighbors may engage in hadaka no tsukiai.From the entry hadaka no tsukiai
• Call me a housewife the way I'm cooking 🔥🔥🔥.From the entry the way
• They are "housewives," students, small business people, retired persons, or a local politician or government administrator.2012, Daniel McCool, “Crumbling Edifice”, in River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West…. From the entry instigator
• A black plumber working under the sink in coveralls was being pestered by a negligeed housewife.2010, David Walton, Evening Out, page 119. From the entry negligeed
• Mrs Watanabe, the market’s metaphor for Japan’s housewife yen speculators, has come back to life.2009 June 27, “The return of 'Mrs Watanabe'”, in Asia Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2009. From the entry Mrs. Watanabe
• The 'make do and mend' campaign was the Board of Trade's central propaganda effort directed at housewives.2000 Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955. From the entry make do and mend
• The housewife smiled to herself and started baiting up the hook.1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 29. From the entry bait up
• The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China.1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry wok
• For the harried, automobileless housewife there was a ‘Bundle Buggy’ for bringing home the groceries.1942 August 3, The New York Times. From the entry bundle buggy
• Westerns are called "horse operas", the morning housewife tear-jerkers are called "soap operas".1941 January, "Bob" Tucker, “Archived copy”, in Le Zombie, number 36, archived from the original on 13 May 2008, page 9. From the entry space opera
• Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 3, in The Dain Curse, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 28. From the entry tartar
• In Blackburn housewives are finding it almost impossible to get nursemaids.1907 October, “The Jester and the World: His Comments, Humorous and Satirical, on Events and Incidents of Every Day”, in The Pandex of the…. From the entry nurseman
• The gaggles of housewives were less gaggly, keeping an unusual distance from each other as they picked up groceries.2017, P. T. Phronk, Of Moons and Monsters. From the entry gaggly
• They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry bodiceripper
• A Canarsie housewife said it best: We never join the have-a-littles with the have-nots to fight the haves.2012, Joan C. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter, page 202. From the entry have-a-little
• They say you can't turn a hoe into a housewife.2012 June 26, Ronnie Bo, The Trap, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, Enlightment, page 55. From the entry you can't turn a hoe into a housewife
• A thirty-two-year-old housewife from Fuzhou who left China by boat alleged that her snakehead was involved in both.2011, David Kyle, Rey Koslowski, Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, page 190. From the entry snakehead
• Disgruntled housewife is a perzine in Web format.2002, Johan Fornäs, Digital borderlands. From the entry perzine
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet was another hugely successful exemplar of the crime-and-punishment cryfests that shopgirls and housewives took to heart.1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press…. From the entry cryfest
• They should be called "momics," those housewives who climb comedy-club stages and tell jokes about their kids and dirty laundry.1996 March 2, Dick Kreck, “Everything wacky in 'Momville'”, in Denver Post. From the entry momic
• The patient was a 53-year-old, married, Foochownese housewife.1988 September, Yat-San Tsai, Shi-Chiy Su, Tai-Te Wang, Chien-Tien Hsu, Yun-Nan Lin, “Primary choriocarcinoma in the uterine cervix…. From the entry Foochownese
• Department stores are shunned by prudent housewives.1968, Max Gunther, “The Weekend World”, in Norman F. Cantor, Michael S. Werthman, editors, The History of Popular Culture, The Macmillan…. From the entry datewear
• Most of you remember the "aluminum shower" which the American housewives gave Uncle Sam about eight months ago.1942, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's magazine, volumes 112-113. From the entry aluminum shower
• This book is worth its weight in gold to the housewife who wishes to feed her family for health—and economically.1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent…. From the entry worth one's weight in gold
• No Manhattan singleton, desperate housewife, or hyperfeminized action heroine, Bella is an everygirl with no real distinguishing traits, apart, perhaps, from her crippling clumsiness.2011, Giselle Liza Anatol, Margaret Kramar, Bringing Light to Twilight, page 47. From the entry hyperfeminized
• It went along with a general hostility to families, motherhood, being a housewife — any role that seemed at all traditionally female.1978 April 22, Nancy Wechsler, “The Evolution of a Gay Parents Center”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry unliberated
• "Methingks you Clithereare's nun hath a reasty look , forsooth!" "Reasty?", retorted that housewife, " Callest thou me a whipper-ginnie, thou hufty-tufty cumtwang?"1978, Logophile - Volume 2, Issue 6, page 10. From the entry reasty
• In Chinatown, the scene is animated, colorful and noisy, full of ordinary housewives and children and a host of quaint, quite extraordinary old Chinafolk.1969, Qantas Airways Australia, volumes 35–36, Sydney, N.S.W.: Qantas Airways Limited, →OCLC, page 8. From the entry Chinafolk
• Psychological questioning showed that nearly two out of three housewives like to think of eggs in terms of food dishes or other nonchicken, nonfarm associations.1962, National poultry digest, Volume 21. From the entry nonchicken
• Arches—Like a housewife who spends a day on the range, a soldier gets tired feet and is eager to hit the sack.1953, "New Army, Familiar Scenes" (photo essay), New York Times, 18 Jan., p. SM45 (caption). From the entry hit the sack
• He is like a tetchy housewife who wants you to recognise that everything is in perfect order in the middle of an eviction.1920, H. G. Wells, “Chapter 6”, in Russia in the Shadows. From the entry tetchy
• The famous fam's matriarch appeared on The Ellen Show where she revealed that while she's not keen on being a full-time housewife, she's defs keen on being a 'friend'.2020 September 25, Matt Galea, “There's A Good Chance Kris Jenner & Kathy Hilton Are Joining RHOBH As 'Friends' & My Nips Are Hard”, in…. From the entry defs
• One of Katherine's neighbors called her "a lewd and idle housewife, a common resorter to alehouses & other places where dancing is both by day and by night.”2019, Lynsey McCulloch, Brandon Shaw, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, page 34. From the entry resorter
• The song tells the story of a Dublin housewife whose husband is away and who is visited by the blond German clockwinder of the title, one Benjilum Fooks.2016, Willie Daly, Philip Dodd, The Last Matchmaker. From the entry clockwinder
• If you're familiar with Les Dawson's infamous creation Ada Shufflebotham, one of the Northern housewives in the 'Cissie and Ada sketches, you'll have an idea who Gran was.2013, Lisa Riley, Never Judge a Book by its Cover: The Autobiography, →ISBN. From the entry mee-maw
• This professionalization is a psychological defense of the housewife against being a general “cleaner-upper” and menial servant for her family in a day and age of general work emancipation.2011, Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt, The Consumer Society Reader, page 32. From the entry cleaner-upper
• You may think of a coffee klatch as old-fashioned or outmoded, a bunch of housewives gossiping in a suburban breakfast nook, but a klatch is what you make it.2005 April, Amanda Boyd, “Klatching Up: Getting together over Coffee in a Whole New Way”, in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Oh.: Cincinnati…. From the entry coffee klatch
• As always the koan “Why, Why am I here, why here” begins in her head, but she beats it back like a housewife with a broom.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 303. From the entry koan

Meaning of housewife

1. noun A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
2. noun The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
3. noun A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.

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Questions about housewife in a sentence

How do you use housewife in a sentence?

Housewife is used as a noun. For example: “In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.”

What is a short sentence with housewife?

“Department stores are shunned by prudent housewives.”

What does housewife mean?

Housewife means a woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.