Sentence examples for a sole breadwinner from inspiring English sources

I never thought I'd be a sole breadwinner.

In each of the three households in the Dunphy-Pritchett constellation, there is a sole breadwinner and a stay-at-home spouse.

These may be modern times, but millions of families are still relying on a sole breadwinner to keep their finances afloat.

When he returned to Singapore in 1950, he was confident in the knowledge that she "could be a sole breadwinner and bring up the children", giving him an "insurance policy" that would let him enter politics.

He pointed out that in the 1950s and 1960s, graduating from high school guaranteed the chance to get a job or an apprenticeship that allowed a sole breadwinner to house and raise a family and "send their kids to college".

Having a sole breadwinner is a quaint, if outdated, idea.

Though Georgian women are often, like Kakava, a household's sole breadwinner, men still remain the decision-makers outside the home, she says.

The idea of a wife being the primary or sole breadwinner is a relatively new one (though a new study shows that over half of American women are household breadwinners), but speaking as that sole earner: I don't like it.

The son of a postal employee who was the sole breadwinner for a wife, 12 sons and three daughters, Cantinflas graduated from high school and at 15 was sent to an agricultural college.

These very same husbands and wives are left to pick up the pieces, to find a career and become the sole breadwinner and income-earner in a home where a gold star banner with their fallen hero's name proudly hangs in their front window.

The mother of the children, sweet and wonderful as she is, is also a good portrait of the writer as sole breadwinner for a family.