housewife

Example Sentences

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In a nearby tent was Zuhoor Musa Abdul Rahman, a 30-year-old housewife who recounted with unnatural calm the horrors that spurred her to flee El Fasher, a city some 300 miles east of Obeid.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Silva, a housewife, rests on a bench in the plaza, a few meters from a military checkpoint.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

I was born in Peru, having come over to America very small, 3 years old — there was no example of a stay-at-home mom or a housewife living a life of luxury like that.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

"We're living like that now, we're exactly like that", says housewife Lisandra outside her home in Havana, which is cobbled together with pieces of sheet metal and wood.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The housewife who sat across the kitchen table from Harriet, listening, felt as though she were traveling, too, and so was reluctant to let her go on to her next stop.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry