How to Use stay-at-home in a Sentence

stay-at-home

adjective
  • Grace, 23, dreams of being a stay-at-home mom with four kids.
    — Jason Parham, Wired News, 26 May 2025
  • These days Massa is a stay-at-home mom to Caleb, age 8.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
  • Eva Mendes and her agreement with Ryan Gosling to be a stay-at-home mom.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Elvina, who gave birth to a daughter in the spring, is a stay-at-home mom.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The stay-at-home mom who yearns to go back to work, but can’t afford to pay for child care.
    — Reshma Saujani, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025
  • There was cottage core, there was the trad wife, there was the stay-at-home girlfriend.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Julie, a stay-at-home mom, raised Baylen and her siblings in West Virginia.
    — Skyler Caruso, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Yet, many people believe that the best way to parent is to stay-at-home.
    — Sasha Brown-Worsham, Parents, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Bevers first worked as a teacher and spent years being a stay-at-home mom.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But Mack Weldon isn't just slashing prices on its stay-at-home clothes.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • My mom was a stay-at-home mom and my dad worked in retail management.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Lindsay is a stay-at-home mom, while Robert appears to work in business.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • By the sound of Flay’s caption, there are lots more stay-at-home pasta dates in the couple's future.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The stay-at-home mom is ready to get back into the small business world with a unique, manageable space.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In a nutshell, that means a working husband and stay-at-home mom would split the earnings the husband makes.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
  • Maria’s was a stay-at-home mom, first keeping a keen eye on Maria and her sister, then later on me as well.
    — Jacqueline Woodson, Bon Appétit, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But the stay-at-home, social distancing order in 2020 was a dire threat.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • And it's being compared to being a stay-at-home mom but the two are not synonymous.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 31 May 2024
  • Why are women still more likely to be stay-at-home parents?
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Yet others may work from home, are stay-at-home parents, or have a village who can help out with child care in the home.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 5 July 2024
  • Gabriel Martinez was a stay-at-home dad to his 10-year-old and 5-year-old kids before spotting the call for tutors.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Derek Forbort At five-on-five play, Forbort is a steady, stay-at-home option.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Breanna Nix Nix is a 25-year-old stay-at-home mom from Denton, Texas.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 May 2025
  • Her husband stepped away from his job as a restaurant manager in Texas and is a stay-at-home dad.
    — Cheyenne Devon,zachary Green, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Finally, on the 17th, when the new moon in Cancer brings back that cozy, stay-at-home energy.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
  • One woman is now a breadwinner married to a stay-at-home dad.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • Annette, a stay-at-home mom, took art classes at the local college.
    — Christine Pelisek, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Jacki, 34, lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is a stay-at-home mom to two children: Jessie, four, and two-year-old Andy.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
  • Her husband, Matt, gave up his own successful career to become a stay-at-home dad when About The Fit started to take off.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 23 June 2025
  • This wouldn’t be the first time Walmart has operated dark stores, with the company experimenting with them during the Covid-19 pandemic when stay-at-home laws were put in place.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 June 2025

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