How to Use breadwinner in a Sentence

breadwinner

noun

• With breadwinner dad on board, wives and children got a price break.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• Sole breadwinner dies, what’s left?
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
• One woman is now a breadwinner married to a stay-at-home dad.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• One man is accepting his wife’s new role as the breadwinner with open arms.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024
• Or maybe their child's the breadwinner for the family -- who knows?
  — Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• That’s still a lot of money to a family with just one breadwinner.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• One working mother opened up about her life as the breadwinner with a husband who says home.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 5 Nov. 2024
• Kitty was the sole breadwinner in her household for more than a season.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• Many were family breadwinners, putting their own lives on the line to help others back home.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• But that percentage falls by half for the spouses of the breadwinner.
  — Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 28 June 2019
• My mom struggled with her new role as the sole breadwinner and spent many evenings crying alone in her bedroom.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
• In these states, almost half of men believe that men should be the breadwinner while women tend to the home.
  — Rosemary Wardley, National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020
• For years before the story broke, Stormy had been the breadwinner.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2024
• Both men were fathers and the sole breadwinners of their families.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
• During these years, Maryam was the breadwinner for her children.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• The glitch occurs when a breadwinner gets coverage from work but cannot afford to add a spouse and kids.
  — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
• At the beginning of the story, dad is the breadwinner and things seem mostly ok.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The virus killed her stepfather, who was the household’s main breadwinner.
  — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
• For a time, Ramírez’s father was the sole breadwinner so her mother could stay home to take care of the kids.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• She was trained as a nurse, was an active member of her church and the breadwinner for her family of six.
  — Joseph Diaz, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Men are no longer the sole breadwinners, as working moms became more of the rule than the exception.
  — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 9 May 2017
• And three-quarters of the black women who hold breadwinner status are doing so alone.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
• This would mean a tax hike for couples with a breadwinner and a tax break for dual-earning couples with kids.
  — Robert Verbruggen, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
• Some 25 women in the co-op are the sole breadwinners for their families.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
• Cartwright said her client, who was the breadwinner of his family, met the requirements.
  — Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
• That’s the case for only 12% of men who are their families’ main breadwinners.
  — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Sheri would be the breadwinner in the family, taking on a career in design.
  — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
• The vast majority of us no longer live in the single, and male, breadwinner model.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• Naeem was the breadwinner for her family and had worked as a journalist for 12 years.
  — Babar Dogar, ajc, 31 Oct. 2022
• As a result, Maxey was the breadwinner for the family of four.
  — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026