domesticity

Example Sentences

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Ms. Latifi, a journalist who has written extensively on the subject, describes the world as a fun-house version of domesticity, where family life resembles a business arrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

So how had she gotten mired in the same pit of domesticity as her parents?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon