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
  • What was the reason behind the shift, and which new housewife has stood out to you?
    — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • As the sort of spouse who cooks and cleans like a 1950s housewife, Nancy knows their home inside out.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
  • 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 Real Housewives of Gilead is gonna have a great reunion after episode 10.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 22 June 2017
  • 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
  • None of the details were known by William, who thought his wife was just a regular housewife who loved to sing and clean the house.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • But if Shauna was this awful and domineering and scary in the teen timeline, why has she been treated like a normal housewife by her fellow survivors this whole time?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • His father, Charles, was a salesman for a company that sold fixtures to supermarkets, and his mother, Elsa, was a housewife who played the piano.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025

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