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Example sentences for "housewives"

Lexicographically close words:
housetops; housewarming; housewife; housewifely; housewifery; housework; houshold; housholde; housing; housings
  1. There will be no tears shed over jelly that will not "jell" if all young housewives will learn the simple test for pectin; to find out whether a juice contains pectin or not is a very easy matter.

  2. Modern housewives are discarding it more and more every year and are beginning to place their trust in the newer and far more scientific methods of canning.

  3. As the products will have to be cooked before they can be used many housewives do not consider it any saving of time or labor to follow this method.

  4. There is a little knack about preparing the strawberries that few housewives know.

  5. It fought a long fight to prove that it was a very efficient, economical and satisfactory process for busy housewives to can everything that grows.

  6. So enthused was I over this new, efficient and easy way to can not only fruits but hard vegetables, such as peas, corn and beans, that I wanted to carry the good news into the kitchen of other busy housewives and mothers.

  7. When this Extraction One is fairly drained out, which takes about thirty minutes, do not squeeze the pulp for a second grade jelly as so many housewives do; instead, make another juice extraction.

  8. Almost every one likes canned pineapple, but some housewives stopped canning this fruit because they found that when cooked in sirup it seemed to get tough and less palatable.

  9. This is where many housewives "fall down" on jelly making.

  10. Many housewives even to-day prefer dried sweet corn to the canned, and find also that dried pumpkin and squash are excellent for pie making.

  11. Harrison says that the women do far exceed the lightness of the men; "such staring attire as in time past was supposed meet for light housewives only is now become an habit for chaste and sober matrons.

  12. Deliciously self-conscious, her gaze fixed ahead, she pressed through the Wednesday night crowds, young mill men and women in their best clothes, housewives and fathers of families with children and bundles.

  13. They were a favorite spring tonic, where all physicians and housewives prescribed "the bitter principle" in the spring time.

  14. Up these steps all the housewives must go to reach the market.

  15. Chestnuts were for sale in large quantities, and housewives were buying their stocks for the winter.

  16. Cleanliness is, in all parts of the world, deemed a very essential requisite of a dairy, and the Dutch housewives in the dairy villages of Holland have carried the idea to the extreme.

  17. That was a large part of Nickie's philosophy, and he had acted up to it with marked success, but this morning housewives were incredulous and tough, and our hero was faring badly.

  18. Mr. Crips was making back-door call, and telling housewives what the doctors at the hospital had said about his peculiar ailment which, it appears, was an interesting heart weakness.

  19. Housewives throughout the county are becoming more and more incensed over the steadily rising prices of foodstuffs, particularly meats.

  20. In many places housewives are actually boycotting merchants who attempt to sell meat at the present price level.

  21. Almost whelmed in the snow, and when even the mercury freezes in the bulb of the thermometer, these anxious and loving housewives feed the lamp and keep the fire burning on the hearth.

  22. Even the critical housewives of the Glen felt it, and were unconsciously mellowed in judgment because of it.

  23. Glen housewives would have been amazed had they heard him.

  24. But then so many Glen housewives talked only gossip and the price of eggs, and John Meredith was not interested in either.

  25. Christie laid hold of the weekly job which even the best housewives are apt to set aside for pleasanter tasks.

  26. At first Christie enjoyed the novelty of the thing, and watched with interest the anxious housewives who flocked in demanding that rara avis, an angel at nine shillings a week; and not finding it, bewailed the degeneracy of the times.

  27. Galpin went from the court-house to the prison, or came striding up National Street with his stiff, slow step, twenty good housewives peeped from behind their curtains to read in his face some of the secrets of the trial.

  28. Wherever one goes, the eye meets careful housewives bending over wooden boxes on the balconies; M.

  29. Government Inspection Housewives realize, more than ever before, their responsibility in selecting for their families foods that are wholesome and healthful.

  30. Patriotic bakers and housewives all over the country have been trying to produce a wheatless loaf which is light, palatable, and sufficiently durable to stand transportation.

  31. The fruit is prized by our housewives for pies and preserves, and it would doubtless make as good wine as that of the Eastern species.

  32. Housewives of our mountain districts make a marmalade of the fruit, which has a peculiarly delicious, tart flavor.

  33. It is said that both brandy and vinegar are made from them, and housewives make quite a good jelly from some species.

  34. In early days in both Utah and Southern California housewives used its stems as a substitute for the cultivated pie-plant, finding them quite acceptable.

  35. No such instruction was needed by the housewives of the Continent.

  36. We have just awakened to the fact that our daughters should receive training in those things which will best fit them for housewives and mothers.

  37. As housewives this truth comes home to us, especially in the summer when we have an abundance of fruit which, without care, would soon become worthless.

  38. This is what the Domestic Science Course in our public school aims to teach our girls so that as housewives they can get the most value for the least money and be economical and intelligent buyers.

  39. One by one the housewives of Bloomtown demanded of their paralyzed husbands bathrooms, cellars, furnaces, tiled fireplaces.

  40. The advertisement is, however, typical of the knowledge which our great-grandmothers looked upon as indispensable to the notable housekeeper of that day, though it might well appall the most skilful of our housewives of the present.

  41. It attained considerable popularity among housewives who preferred to do their own roasting.

  42. Except in the big cities, most housewives bought their coffee green, and roasted it in their kitchen stoves as needed.


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