How to Use housewife in a Sentence

housewife

noun

• She’s a naïve housewife in a way that feels very 1960s.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 22 June 2021
• There was a series of 1950s housewives that were all thrown at me at the same time.
  — Renée Fleming, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2018
• Tune in to the exciting premiere to see what the housewives are up to next.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
• Lopez plays the part of a ’50s housewife in a floral print dress and a dainty string of pearls.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2018
• If, in 1963, Patricia is the earnest naïf of the claque of housewives, Charlene is the wild card.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• She’s been a housewife and a caretaker the last 30 years.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 7 Oct. 2024
• His mother, then a housewife, returned to the fields to shoulder the cost.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• The housewife, who lives a few minutes' walk from the mosque, had gone to attend evening prayers.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 11 May 2021
• To Poulain’s dismay, the home has become a workplace where the housewife toils alone.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
• Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
• Dressed to kill, the housewives put their best foot forward in the images below.
  — Essence, 1 Nov. 2019
• Yvonne was housewife for most of her life, but was a woman of many talents.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 June 2018
• Melissa’s friend Rachel Fuda joins the cast as a new housewife.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
• Her father was a garage worker and Thelma was a housewife at the time of Vel's birth.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• His father was a house painter and his mother a housewife.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• The matriarch of the Arnold home wanted more out of life than just being a housewife.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• The term was then applied to hints that made day-to-day life easier and not just for housewives.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Cynthia Bailey will also return to the season, this time, as a friend of the housewives.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 31 July 2024
• The sample is actually from a very old recording of a housewife in the 1950s trying LSD for the first time.
  — David Rishty, Billboard, 4 May 2018
• The high drama of housewives bickering about who said what over a bottle of wine.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
• Candy was a housewife and Betty had worked as a school teacher.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• These housewives are realer than any of the Real Housewives.
  — Casey Wilson, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2019
• The housewife might stew a simple meal of meat and grains in a kettle, but her husband would have grown the grains, butchered the meat, and constructed the fireplace.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 3 Nov. 2019
• The Hamburg housewife is seeking payback for the murder of her 6-year-old son and husband.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Don’t come for the housewives, and don’t come to Parvati Shallow with just any old reality TV offer.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2025
• Nell is now a boho housewife who sells chutney at a farmers’ market, and her presence awakens old differences, emotional and professional.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2025