domesticity

Example Sentences

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Ms. Latifi, a journalist who has written extensively on the subject, describes the world as a fun-house version of domesticity, where family life resembles a business arrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

The two could civilly debate the issues of the day while cheerily disagreeing with each other—serving as a model of bipartisan debate and domesticity.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2024

Settling in, Duane gifts Jackie with a microwave he liberated from his broken marriage, a small symbol of both warm domesticity and cold technology.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

“The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell