Example sentences for: housewife

How can you use “housewife” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In England, a citizens' lobby called the Plain English Campaign, led by a former housewife named Chrissie Maher, has sought since 1971 to make English laws and regulations more straightforward.

  • (There are two Baldwin sisters : Jane [32], a physical therapist in Syracuse, N.Y., and Beth [42], a Long Island housewife.

  • There is no shortage of stereotypes: the beleaguered workaholic salaryman, the exotic geisha, the long-suffering Japanese housewife.

  • Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his "Suburban Detective Mystery" series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like the Unabomber, Katz is driven frothy by a world that won't conform to his expectations.

  • But Safe (1995), the story of a Reagan-era housewife (Julianne Moore) convinced that her environment is poisoning her, is an entrancing meditation on the power of culture to crush the individual.


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