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
Ms. Gustern might have thought of herself as a helpmeet or second banana, but her students didn’t see her that way.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
“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
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
“I hope he recognises his fore-ordained helpmeet in Miss Simpson, as we do in the ladies of our choice.”
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
