Examples of housework in a Sentence
I got up early and did some housework.
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Smith filled his days coaching his son’s basketball and baseball teams, watching his daughters cheerlead, housework and hard introspection.
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Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
The abolition of the wealth tax (förmögenhetsskatten) 20 years ago is part of this story – along with, in the same year, the introduction of generous tax deductions for housework and home improvement projects.
—Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
By distributing intelligence across appliances and home robots, LG is working toward a Zero Labor Home, where routine housework is handled by AI systems and people reclaim time for higher value activities.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Sometimes the passivity results in long periods of unemployment or underemployment in which the husband neither looks for work nor does any extra parenting or housework.
—Oona Metz, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
The abolition of the wealth tax (förmögenhetsskatten) 20 years ago is part of this story – along with, in the same year, the introduction of generous tax deductions for housework and home improvement projects.
—Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
By distributing intelligence across appliances and home robots, LG is working toward a Zero Labor Home, where routine housework is handled by AI systems and people reclaim time for higher value activities.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Sometimes the passivity results in long periods of unemployment or underemployment in which the husband neither looks for work nor does any extra parenting or housework.
—Oona Metz, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Housework.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housework. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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housework
noun
house·work
ˈhau̇-ˌswərk 
: the work of housekeeping
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