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

“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

Through it all he drew on New York, his inspiration and his helpmeet.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2019

Some of those women flourished, but not a few seemed diminished by their role as helpmeet and handmaiden, and if they got divorced, they divorced the identity they’d helped build and maintain.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2017

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.