How to Use homemaker in a Sentence

homemaker

noun
  • TV commercials often show happy homemakers.
  • She was described as a homemaker and a long-standing member of a bridge club.
    Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • His wife Suzy, 45, a homemaker, had also been shot and stabbed to death.
    Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 28 May 2021
  • Freitag, his third wife, was a homemaker and an expert seamstress.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • The son of a postal worker and a homemaker, Austin grew up in Thomasville, Georgia.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • His father was a financier, and his mother worked as a nurse before becoming a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • His father, Frank, was a banker and his mother, Catherine, a homemaker.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Serritella, a homemaker who also worked in a Catholic high school cafeteria.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2021
  • Her father worked in logistics for the federal government, and her mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • Ostrow was born in San Francisco in 1931, the son of a glove salesman and a homemaker.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • His mother, Lillian (Kalepa) Baybayan, was a homemaker.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
  • My grandmother, Margaret LaVorgna, was a homemaker who took care of the house and family.
    Jonathon Berlin, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Along with countless American women who had answered calls to join the war efforts, she was let go from the job after the war ended and expected to resume her role as a homemaker.
    Paulina Cachero, Time, 29 May 2021
  • His father, Jacob Bernstein, was a tailor, and his mother, Sarah Bernstein, was a homemaker.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2021
  • His father retired as president of Potomac Edison, an electric company, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2021
  • Their home base was the kitchen and being the happy homemaker.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Thrifty homemakers turned to the humble loaf as a way to stretch a costly protein.
    Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • His mother, a homemaker, then married Thomas B. Owens, who was in the Army.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2023
  • At that time, his dad owned a sporting goods store and his mother was a homemaker.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Brittney Yevette Griner grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter of a homemaker and a cop.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
  • For her part, Shriver took aim at Butker’s praise of his wife’s choice to be a homemaker.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • His father was a banker, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Back home, his mother was a homemaker, and his dad worked as a server in a restaurant.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
  • His mother was a homemaker, and his father drove a truck.
    Amanda Petrusic, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • His mother was a homemaker, and his father ran a store that sold children’s books and toys.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Lucy was a homemaker, aching for her shot in the spotlight and constantly scheming to get it.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The other spouse is a homemaker or at least a more modest earner.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Her father was a colonel in the Army National Guard, and her mother was a homemaker.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Frankie was a homemaker and a dental assistant, as well as a florist.
    Isabella Rosario, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
  • His father was a porter on the Santa Fe Railroad, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023

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