helpmate

Example Sentences

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“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

We see ourselves, our own troubled impulses, in her and, to some extent, in her helpmate Morgana.

From Los Angeles Times

Closely tied to this ideology is an adherence to strict binary gender roles, in which men serve as the heads of households and women as their helpmates and the bearer of children.

From Salon