HOUSEWORK in a Sentence

Learn HOUSEWORK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for HOUSEWORK, such as:

1. She is in charge of the housework.
2. She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
3. He did his own housework and dug in his garden.
4. Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
5. Daily they became more frankly two girls playing at housework.

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housework
 n.  the work of cleaning and running a house
Classic Sentence:
1  Daily they became more frankly two girls playing at housework.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  There've been a good many times when we hadn't a maid, and I did all the housework, and cared for Hugh, and went to Red Cross, and did it all very efficiently.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  It was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not adventurous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold which made the housework heavy for her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  Often, too, they are girls that didn't know what they were coming to, that had hired out for housework.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
7  Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
8  She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
9  He did his own housework and dug in his garden.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
2  Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
3  She is in charge of the housework.