Sentence examples for were household from inspiring English sources
noun
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
Some, like Couchsurfing, were household names.
Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin were household gods.
In 1991, 67% of the 25 to 34 age group who were household heads were homeowners.
In 1991, a third of Britons aged 16-24 werewere household heads owned their own home.
Throughout the 20th century, various writers were household names, and people listened to what they had to say.
Koresh would speak of obscure Old Testament kings like Ahaz and Hezekiah as if they were household names.
Local officials say that none of those killed were "household names", but are playing up the importance of the strikes.
Most are in their 70s or 80s, and most are, or were, household names — celebrities from a bygone era.
Martin and Osa Johnson may not be well known today, but they were household names back in the 1920s.
And the women's Round of 16 winners were household names, too, as Venus Williams, Jennifer Capriati, Kim Clijsters and Amélie Mauresmo advanced to the quarterfinals.
The days when quite ordinary England cricketers were household names, when Mike Gatting's (hotly denied) indiscretions were deemed front page news will not come again.
