helpmeet

Example Sentences

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When Harold burned out on being the helpmeet to the rising star, Minnie took his place.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Samad has opted for an arranged marriage with a Bengali, the fiery Alsana, though whatever grief he’s endured from his helpmeet is nothing compared with the trials of raising his two sons, Magid and Millat.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

“The Wife” is about Joan Castleman, the long-suffering helpmeet to Joe Castleman, a famous author who builds his legacy by leeching off Joan’s literary ambitions.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

In 1615, for example, Cecco del Caravaggio, no relation though he was the older painter’s helpmeet, sometime model and companion, looked back to the early paintings of boys when he produced his own Musician.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2016

Marrying in his twenty-fifth year, his wife, named Katherine Boucher, proved a faithful and useful helpmeet, one who considered her husband's excursions to be dictated by superior knowledge.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.