How to Use householder in a Sentence

householder

noun

• The householder had done the right thing & purchased one with a CE mark.
  — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 15 Dec. 2017
• Within months he was involved in a burglary in which the householder was shot dead.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• After that, the census used the concept of householder.
  — Aviva Rutkin, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
• Think of long-ago householders who buried pots in the embers of communal bake houses to braise overnight, low and slow.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The owner had proof that the householder was on holiday at the time but the court ruled that the network should have been password-protected.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2010
• Porch pirates scour door steps for deliveries that have been made when a householder was out, and nab them.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
• Plays, like other goods sold as the property of a householder, could have been the product of his wife’s or daughter’s work as well as—or instead of—his own.
  — Phyllis Rackin, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
• That problem is easily solved by any householder: every five to 10 years, wash the surface and repaint it—voilà!
  — Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
• Amazon agreed to buy Ring, which makes video doorbells that enable householders to use their phones and computers to see who has come calling.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Median household income includes the income of the householder and anyone else over 15 years old living in the home.
  — Madlin Mekelburg, ExpressNews.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• The official federal poverty line is based on food costs and adjusts for family size and age of householder.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• By the 1890s, in the suburbs of both London and Paris, it was estimated that three quarters of householders were actively engaged in tending to their gardens.
  — The School Of Life, CNN, 27 May 2020
• Developers must also be held to account for ensuring these standards are met and householders must be made fully aware of the risks.
  — Hannah Cloke, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
• Who was a powerful G O P lobbyist who was charged alongside householder.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• And, even when census workers do go later to non-responding householders, the process should go quicker than in the past. Ditched beginning with this census has been the old-fashioned paperwork.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
• On one street in North London, at least, not a single householder was seen making the gesture, unless the guy sitting on his doorstep and looking at his phone could be counted, which somehow seemed unlikely.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 May 2020
• Greening the industry is also costly, and that is expected to make the steel used in cars, buildings and householder appliances more expensive.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2021
• The ancient Indian text The Vedas advises giving leftovers to scavengers, including stray dogs, as part of being a good householder.
  — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2020
• Also, by necessity, some officials are trying to clean up the island’s messy land registry, to help poor householders denied help by FEMA.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Louisiana's immigrant children are more likely to live with a householder who did not graduate high school.
  — Tammy Nunez, NOLA.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The organization said 28% of households with a Black householder and 22% of households with a householder of Hispanic origin carry medical debt.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
• Traditionally, homeownership and rentership are measured on the household level, based only on the characteristics of the householder (the primary person who owns or rents the home).
  — Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• The householder was happy that garbage was collected regularly at her doorstep, and soon agreed to pay a regular monthly fee for collection, offsetting the municipality’s additional costs.
  — Raghuram Rajan, Quartz India, 12 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024