Sentence examples for without a breadwinner from inspiring English sources

If a young lawyer dies, the family is left without a breadwinner or support.

My mother is without a breadwinner and has to cope on her own.

Many cited fears of being jailed indefinitely and leaving their families without a breadwinner for weeks, months or even years.

"These are the people who put bread on the tables of families who – if the rich didn't invest in supercars and employ eau de cologne-dabbers – might otherwise find themselves without a breadwinner," Mr Johnson said.

Simply put, it is a score that combines information on the household's and the head of the household's characteristics, asset ownership, social categories (partially disabled or severely ill, fully disabled or severely ill, elderly, orphans) and economic categories (unemployed, women without a breadwinner).

Women today find it easier to cope without a male breadwinner.

Although husbands felt a need to justify themselves to wives who complained of raising children or running a household without a male breadwinner, in a patriarchal society, there was little recourse for a wife such as Alice Chapin but to accept her husband's decision.

P13: "I feel the need to stay at work, because I am a breadwinner, and without my income we would have to sell our house".

He's been so busy feeling down and defending his absence that he has failed to be compassionate to the demands upon him as a breadwinner, who also grew up in a home without a dad.

Lots of that has to do with being a breadwinner.

Now you have an unassailable, American motivation; you're a breadwinner.