housewife

Example Sentences

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In 1899 Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening,” about a mutineering New Orleans housewife, challenged conventions of marriage and motherhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Even before her husband’s death and her takeover as CEO of TPUSA, she was a highly-educated career woman only playing at being the demure housewife for his audiences.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

When Todd Haynes made his 1995 masterpiece “Safe”—which cast Julianne Moore as a Los Angeles housewife under siege by myriad illnesses—environmental disease was an enigma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

"I am worried about the continuation of the situation and the return of attacks again, because they were causing me tension," said Imam, an Egyptian housewife living in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

Jim’s mother had studied at the Union Theological Seminary under several famous theologians and became a Confucian scholar, ending up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French