households
- plural of household.
Example Sentences
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Key details: Households spent more in May on gas, financial services, healthcare and utilities.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
Households expect to see income growth of just 0.8% over the coming 12 months, down from 2% in March.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Households in Germany and North America volunteered to use one of three sponge types as part of their regular dishwashing routines while documenting how the sponges were used.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Households are paying roughly $450 more for gas, hurting lower-income consumers more disproportionately, and any resolution that reduces some of those costs could help.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
Households, too, were separated; the colonial newspapers contained advertisements of members of families seeking their companions, of sons anxious to reach and relieve their parents, of mothers moaning for their children.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
