keep house
Example Sentences
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As those homely implements suggest, “Terce” focuses on the work of people not often celebrated in liturgy: those who keep house, cultivate gardens, nurture children.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Staff kept girls in cottages and trained them to work and keep house.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
Hilda holed up with her cat, Rommel, until, on Christmas Day 1987, she was invited to move to the country with the widowed Dr Lowther and keep house for him.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2016
While daddy’s gone, Fran — despite the flu she’s suffering from — is reminded to buy groceries and keep house for the summer people, such roustabout work being the family’s main source of income.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2015
So after Elizabeth finished high school, her father encouraged her to enjoy her social life and learn “how to keep house and make puddings.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
