helpmeet
Example Sentences
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When Harold burned out on being the helpmeet to the rising star, Minnie took his place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
Ms. Gustern might have thought of herself as a helpmeet or second banana, but her students didn’t see her that way.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
“The Wife” is about Joan Castleman, the long-suffering helpmeet to Joe Castleman, a famous author who builds his legacy by leeching off Joan’s literary ambitions.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2019
In 1615, for example, Cecco del Caravaggio, no relation though he was the older painter’s helpmeet, sometime model and companion, looked back to the early paintings of boys when he produced his own Musician.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2016
And that, moreover, she would prove a loving, a faithful, and a true helpmeet.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
