housewives

plural of housewife

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of housewives The crux of the cast was assembled around Marks’ friend group in New York City — not the idea of a show with the offspring of housewives. Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025 The new series assembles 10 housewives from across the continent for what producers are calling a celebration of Pan-African sisterhood and glamor. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025 The episode wraps with the second of two housewives fundraisers. Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025 Saint John wasn't the first to speak about this condition, as housewives from New York, Potomac and Atlanta also have shared their journeys through the years. Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 Finding and renting a desirable apartment in New York today requires such concessions of conscience, income, and pride that surgeons have postponed operations, housewives have gone back to work, hippies have cut their hair, and families have destroyed their pets. Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025 The Netflix series follows housewives in East Texas who welcome in a newcomer from Boston. Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewives
Noun
  • Jeffs married as many as 78 wives, including 24 underage girls, and oversaw the abuse of other women and children.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Rutgers-Eagleton poll found women were 18 points more likely than men to back Sherrill, and 16 points less likely to support Ciattarelli.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Among them, the Women Filmmakers Encounter, focused this year on the expanding roles of women in the audiovisual industry.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Around him sat ten women—all of them homemakers and nurses—and one seven-year-old girl.
    Joshua Sharpe August 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Housewives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewives. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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