householder

Example Sentences

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Missing just one payment can put the house at risk of foreclosure, with the householder losing everything they invested.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

That problem is easily solved by any householder: every five to 10 years, wash the surface and repaint it—voilà!

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2022

The first is the student, the second is the householder and the third is retirement.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2021

In Maine's Franklin County, for example, "the count of households with a black… householder was more than 11 times" higher in the demonstration than in the original data.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2020

He filled a pot-bellied stove from a small coal scuttle, for all the world a kindly German householder entertaining a guest.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom