breadwinner

How To Use breadwinner In A Sentence

• Many could not afford to be made redundant as some had just taken out new mortgages, were the sole breadwinners, or had school-aged children to support.
• Breadwinner wives who are the couple's sole earners are a rarity, wives are typically joint but secondary earners.
• Traditionally, of course, the man is the breadwinner who enhances his desirability by demonstrating his earning prowess.
• Breadwinner wives who are the couple's sole earners are a rarity, wives are typically joint but secondary earners.
• Sheila is the breadwinner in the family, and deems Denise's education to be of more importance than the Decadents ' career. MUSIC FOR BOYS
• In some ways, the loss of an adult breadwinner is more grievous than that of a child, when one considers the knock-on effect on families.
• Partly it is an effect of changed economic circumstances, in the West at least, in which the roles of breadwinners and homekeepers have unravelled out of long-preserved ideological fixity.
• With a wife and two grown up daughters who must be concerned at the level of vitriol thrown at their breadwinner, has he ever considered packing it all in, his lucrative renumeration apart?
• Marta's mother became the breadwinner then, tugging the ten-year-old to the roadside. ROUGH JUSTICE
• Her boss often harassed her and was aware that, as the sole breadwinner of her four-member family, she was unlikely to protest.