HOUSEWORK in a Sentence

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For HOUSEWORK, below is one of 12 sentences:
But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOUSEWORK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
housework
 n.  the work of cleaning and running a house
Classic Sentence:
1  Daily they became more frankly two girls playing at housework.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  There've been a good many times when we hadn't a maid, and I did all the housework, and cared for Hugh, and went to Red Cross, and did it all very efficiently.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  It was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not adventurous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold which made the housework heavy for her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  Often, too, they are girls that didn't know what they were coming to, that had hired out for housework.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
7  Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
8  She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
9  He did his own housework and dug in his garden.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  She has a fairly relaxed approach to housework.
2  Women usually do the larger share of the housework.
3  She is in charge of the housework.