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Example sentences for "housekeepers"

Lexicographically close words:
household; householder; householders; households; housekeeper; housekeeping; housel; houseleek; houseless; housemaid
  1. Such bread is supplied in France, where the housekeepers in the city, though noted for their thrift, do not think of bread making at home as a practical or economical procedure.

  2. It is useful as a fuel to those housekeepers who cannot have gas, and who find it a convenient substitute for coal in the summer.

  3. In the school kitchen the dish-washing may be done at the sink by housekeepers appointed for the day, or if equipment allows, the work may be done in twos with some definite plan for dividing the work.

  4. When the soup is a clear soup, the meat that is left may be used for made over dishes; although some practical housekeepers think that it costs almost as much to make it palatable as to buy fresh meat.

  5. This is the final test of good housekeeping, and many otherwise good housekeepers fail just here.

  6. Designed to meet the special wants of a numerous class of housekeepers who are given to entertaining, and are so often at loss to know what and how to prepare for their guests.

  7. It is a standard of excellence, in that it is full of the brightest things in cookery; the recipes are absolutely reliable, and the general instructions to housekeepers of the most helpful and necessary character.

  8. Housekeepers will find the above receipt invaluable.

  9. The best housekeepers the writer has ever known were retired women of business.

  10. Not long ago we made a point of asking several housekeepers why they did not invite friends to visit them.

  11. Housekeepers in our day consider the servant-girl question a hard problem, but hear the complaint a century ago.

  12. Plain, practical lessons for girls and young housekeepers of small means.

  13. Many housekeepers have been annoyed by finding their paint and varnish brushes dry and hard.

  14. There are fewer reckoning days if housekeepers pay cash.

  15. I hope they are, but I am afraid that at least five out of every ten housekeepers would find one of these defects in her pantries should she go there seeking perfection.

  16. To many housekeepers such an arrangement as this would be impossible.

  17. To such rules the majority of housekeepers would be glad to conform if they could.

  18. All those things may be cheap and not bring up your bills at all, and still you can keep down that dreadful item we housekeepers all must struggle with,--meat.

  19. Some housekeepers keep a stock pot on the back of the range and put in it any odds and ends they happen to have, adding more water and seasoning from time to time.

  20. It is where most housekeepers come to grief, if they do.

  21. The worst of it is that it is the poetry of cooking, and all housekeepers love to do it up, love it not wisely but too well.

  22. Often young housekeepers groan over thinking out meals, especially dinners, of course, since they are the most difficult, and declare that they have had every known meat and vegetable again and again.

  23. I thought all careful housekeepers made a point of doing that.

  24. Very true; and it is to just such perplexed young housekeepers that I hope this chapter will be especially useful--that is to say, small families with moderate means and a taste for good things.

  25. Since about one-third of all these prodigals are recruited from the ranks of domestic workers it is possible for the housekeepers of the country to play an important part in this work.

  26. It is for the housekeepers of America to consider the plain facts concerning domestic service.

  27. Some housekeepers provide their servants with good beds; of course, not quite as good as other members of the household enjoy, but good enough.

  28. We cried over Beth, and felt how strangely like most young housekeepers was Meg.

  29. As a rule, those women are the best housekeepers whose lives are varied by some outside interests.

  30. After various struggles with the difficulties presented by this beer question, the generality of English housekeepers have come to the conclusion that it is better to give beer-money than to furnish beer to their servants.

  31. Economical housekeepers very justifiably object to paying for treats to their servants' company.

  32. It was managed by the constables of the respective wards in turn; the constable warned a number of housekeepers to attend him for the night.

  33. Through the Woman’s Trade Union League, which has branches in most of our large cities, housekeepers may learn the women workers’ side as it is presented by themselves.

  34. In some such organized movement against the evils connected with distribution housekeepers must join, if they are to meet their full responsibility.

  35. Housekeepers today are being nerve-racked by an amount of superintendence out of all proportion to the labor necessary for housekeeping.

  36. If all women except professional housekeepers were relieved of the tasks of cooking and cleaning, or of the superintendence of such work, the external form of the average home would be somewhat radically changed.

  37. Many housekeepers seem to have planted it in such spots about the middle of the last century.

  38. Perhaps Mr. Pryor had reflected that housekeepers were hard to get and that there were many Milgrave homes open to Miranda--also, that there was such a thing as a separation allowance.

  39. If Milgrave comes home alive I'll lose Miranda and hired housekeepers cost more than a wife and are liable to leave a man in the lurch any time.

  40. Not but what there are as good housekeepers in the world as Recompense Gardiner.

  41. Touching the length of time required to "do" an ox, no two housekeepers appear to agree.

  42. I don't know how much our housekeepers note the fall of the prices in their monthly bills, but in browsing about for my meals, as I rather like to do, I distinctly see it in the restaurant rates.

  43. Some housekeepers find it most satisfactory to cover the top of a pan containing loaf cake with paper until the cake has risen.

  44. However, some housekeepers contend that the fresh-fruit flavor is retained better by reheating the fruit and adding the sugar just before it is served.

  45. Doubtless many housekeepers who dislike the odor of hot fat and the cleaning of utensils used in frying foods, will consider the process of baking croquettes very much more satisfactory than that of frying.

  46. Many housekeepers find this method desirable for canning tomatoes and beets.

  47. Some housekeepers find it helpful to have lists of dishes found to be satisfactory for serving, such as lists of meat dishes, vegetables, salads, desserts, etc.

  48. Some housekeepers maintain that a superior flavor and quality is given to quick bread by the use of sour milk.

  49. Onions have such a strong flavor that most housekeepers prefer to sacrifice nutriment for flavor.

  50. Although gelatine may be purchased in several different forms, housekeepers find the granulated or pulverized gelatine the most convenient to use.

  51. Housekeepers usually add milk to potatoes when mashing them.

  52. Many housekeepers find it easier than the open kettle method.

  53. A provision-dealer opened not long since a shop in one of the most fashionable quarters of Paris, and sent round circulars to all the housekeepers in the neighborhood announcing his determination of paying no percentage to servants.

  54. One can easily see, therefore, that it takes all the skill and experience in domestic economy of Parisian housekeepers to maintain the prices of living at anything like its present standard in pensions and hotels.

  55. All of the thirty cheap resorts referred to in a previous chapter as belonging to men are managed by madames and housekeepers who are either their wives or their women.

  56. Only a few housekeepers and colored maid servants were arrested.

  57. Nowadays, madames or housekeepers have a punch similar to those used by railroad conductors.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housekeepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.