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 -
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 -
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 -
Their solution was an ad campaign selling beer to housewives—not to drink it but to cook with it.
— Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018 -
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 -
The siloed role of wife-mother and the persistent belief that women should not aspire for lives beyond the home led to a sense of malaise and disillusionment among housewives.
— Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024 -
Hanks plays a struggling stand-up comedian who comes across a housewife (Sally Field) trying out on open-mic nights who turns out to be pretty good.
— Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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