housewifery

Example Sentences

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She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

The writer Joanne Stang called her the “virtually uncontested popularity queen of weekly television,” marveling that Ms. Moore “has made housewifery a highly palatable pastime.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

The tension between socially acceptable housewifery and creative ambition is certainly easy to find in Jackson’s life, but it’s rather harder to locate in her fiction.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Their friends and neighbors, attracted by the games, food, and company, attended as a respite from the tedium of housewifery.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2014

Commonly pride of housewifery incited to it—therefore it must be a triumph.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha