Example Sentences

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“I would look under the motherload of wifedom I had taken on,” she writes, “and see who was left.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Majkut uses embroidery to highlight and subvert historically narrow ideas of wifedom and motherhood.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Clinton’s statement was unsurprising—it hardly seems appropriate to reduce her role in public life to that of wifedom by lumping her in with the other first ladies after her historic presidential campaign.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2018

A great moment in wifedom, though N.D. barely squeezed by, 19-17.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2013