How to Use housewife in a Sentence

housewife

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  • 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
  • His mother, then a housewife, returned to the fields to shoulder the cost.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Melissa’s friend Rachel Fuda joins the cast as a new housewife.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Candy was a housewife and Betty had worked as a school teacher.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The housewife initially plead not guilty and even had her legal team file paperwork to dismiss the charges, but had a change of plans and switched to a guilty plea back in July.
    — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps a meal had been in the making by an industrious housewife.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In the 1950s, American housewives competed over who could make the most elaborate Jell-O molds.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The artwork depicts a 1950s-eque housewife wearing a frilly cleaning apron and bright yellow rubber gloves.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Set in 1968, the film follows a suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks).
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Humphries created the housewife character in 1955 as a social satire.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Phyllis Diller often played the housewife who got shocked with electricity through her hair.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The show, premiering this year, follows the true events featuring 1980s housewife Candy Montgomery and the murder of her friend and neighbor, Berry Gore.
    — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Jessica Biel plays a not-so-sweet suburban housewife in the five-night true crime miniseries, co-starring Melanie Lynskey.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • The restaurant is like stepping into a Miami housewife’s version of a bachelor pad in the ’90s.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • However, Henry was more than willing to voice his opinion on new housewife Kathy Hilton.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Peg Bundy was a housewife of leisure, known more for eating bonbons than preparing a meal for her family.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
  • Her mother was a housewife who, in the poems, sometimes wields a tortoiseshell hairbrush as a weapon of punishment.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Kajol plays a housewife who is forced to return to work as a lawyer after her husband’s public scandal puts him behind bars.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022

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