Examples of housework in a Sentence
I got up early and did some housework.
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In the scope of housework, hard water stains are high on the list of public enemies in my home.
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Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 23 June 2025
With no housework to complete or daily routines to run through it’s just you, your thoughts, and the work that matters.
—Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, once the largest daily newspaper in Hawaii, ran a large chart in 1900 enumerating the miles women walked in the course of their housework, and the Washington Evening Star ran a similar accounting of an office carrier’s travels in a day.
—Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
In the 1950s, suburban housewives took amphetamines to get through the boredom of endless days of housework and child care.
—Paul Tough Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 23 June 2025
With no housework to complete or daily routines to run through it’s just you, your thoughts, and the work that matters.
—Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, once the largest daily newspaper in Hawaii, ran a large chart in 1900 enumerating the miles women walked in the course of their housework, and the Washington Evening Star ran a similar accounting of an office carrier’s travels in a day.
—Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
In the 1950s, suburban housewives took amphetamines to get through the boredom of endless days of housework and child care.
—Paul Tough Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Housework.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housework. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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housework
noun
house·work
ˈhau̇-ˌswərk 
: the work of housekeeping
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