housewives

plural of housewife

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of housewives The next year on the housewives’ Florida trip, though, Gina got so wound up by the thought of sharks and whales lurking in the shallows that when a l’il sharky actually showed up she was reduced to a shaking, crying mess. Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 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
  • Hilland was working on a dead-end cold case that stretched back to the 70s involving a man, John Smith, whose two wives went mysteriously missing.
    Natasha Stoynoff, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Conflict on both sides Men tend to be happy when their wives’ earnings fall in a particular range, according to research.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He has been replaced by Joe Potts who was at Liverpool women for four years.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Armani, who had already introduced unstructured jackets for men and women, was part of the generation of designers who ushered in a less formal fashion era, one that would allow men and women to look refined without looking stuffy.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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