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How to use housework in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Housework means domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking. Example: “He doesn't have money, but he pays rent in chores and housework.”

More sentences with housework

  • He doesn't have money, but he pays rent in chores and housework.From the entry pay
  • I don’t much like housework, and doing the dishes least of all.From the entry least
  • I have no incentive to do housework right now.From the entry incentive
  • The housework was done in a twinkling.From the entry twinkling
  • This strategy is sometimes used by men in relationships to avoid certain chores, housework or parenting tasks.2023 September 18, Mark Travers, “2 Ways ‘Weaponized Incompetence’ Might Be Hurting Your Relationship”, in Forbes. From the entry weaponized incompetence
  • Aint no self-repect'n smithy or ranch hand would be caught dead do'n housework.2012, Amos Walker, chapter 22, in Justice and the Heart, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry swole
  • Yeah, I could run around the house in my altogethers, do the housework while the kids were in school.2014, Moises Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project, Leigh Fondakowski, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. From the entry altogethers
  • Darning socks, knitting, fancy work, cooking, housework, cobbing corn.1969, Jim Henderson, Open Country Calling: People and Places Out of Town, page 82. From the entry cob
  • The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion.1903, Luigi Villari, Italian Life in Town and Country, pages 110–111. From the entry materfamilias
  • Many people suffering through this ordeal come to therapy feeling like the division of housework or chores between them and their partner isn’t equal.2023 September 18, Mark Travers, “2 Ways ‘Weaponized Incompetence’ Might Be Hurting Your Relationship”, in Forbes. From the entry weaponized incompetence
  • Masking can leave a person with less energy to handle other aspects of their day, from performing basic housework to processing thoughts and feelings.2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page. From the entry mask
  • The divide in who does what when it comes to housework persists because of our gendered expectation for women to perform emotional labor.2018, Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Navigating and Redefining Emotional Labor for Good. From the entry emotional labor
  • Cotton dresses that wrap around are easy to iron and have the same big pockets that make blue jeans so popular for housework.1956 May 19, Alicia Hart, “When Is a Lady Not a Lady?”, in Fort Myers News-Press, 72nd year, Fort Myers, Fla., →OCLC, page 10, column 2. From the entry orange-juicy
  • Caretaking routines associated with sleeptime and mealtime, shopping and housework—all of these are potential opportunities for children to achieve new levels of independence, or to cling to babyish ways.1985, Marilyn Segal, Don Adcock, “Daily Living”, in Your Child at Play: One to Two Years, New York, N.Y.: Newmarket Press, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry sleeptime

Meaning of housework

  1. noun Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.
  2. noun Homework.

Full definition of housework

Questions about housework in a sentence

How do you use housework in a sentence?
Housework is used as a noun. For example: “He doesn't have money, but he pays rent in chores and housework.”
What is a short sentence with housework?
“The housework was done in a twinkling.”
What does housework mean?
Housework means domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housework (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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