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
• 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
• 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
• Dressed to kill, the housewives put their best foot forward in the images below.
  — Essence, 1 Nov. 2019
• Melissa’s friend Rachel Fuda joins the cast as a new housewife.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Candy was a housewife and Betty had worked as a school teacher.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• My mother was a housewife raising her three kids, including me, the youngest.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2021
• Lady Killer is about Josie Schuller, a picture-perfect 1950s housewife who has a secret life as a killer for hire.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 5 May 2021
• 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
• An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a ’66 Thunderbird.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The acclaimed ’60s film is about a young man who becomes torn between a bored older housewife and her daughter.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Jacqueline Blake is back as a friend of the housewives, and Jassi Rideaux will also join as a friend of, both bringing their own mix of sass and surprises.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Sep. 2024
• Katie Hafner: The article referred to her as a housewife and mother, not a beloved television host.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024