helpmate

Example Sentences

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On the face of it, your partner doesn’t seem to have placed a high priority on being your stalwart helpmate.

From Washington Post

And Guenevere is now a strategic helpmate, periodically outthinking her husband.

From New York Times

“Emma Smith was far more than an appendage and helpmate to prominent men,” the authors wrote.

From New York Times

There he was, helping her with the occasional button, doing the cooking, driving her everywhere — a helpmate in life for an extraordinary woman who had been blind since shortly after birth.

From Washington Post

If I leave him, I'd give up a good sex life, a helpmate, someone who “has my back.”

From Washington Post