1.   Suburban housewives wear rape whistles on their station wagon key chains.

2.   Bombeck, who was known for her witty but wise columns that poked fun at family life began her humor column as a suburban housewife.

3.   Do you really believe that New Yorkers will prefer a well-meaning suburban housewife to the independent woman you were?

4.   Drug cartels have long since grasped this point, minimizing the use of non-whites as couriers and using people who look like mild-mannered suburban housewives whenever possible.

5.   For Marybeth Eliasson of Huntsville, Ala., the conference was a way to break out of her suburban housewife role.

6.   It became a hip-hop song that even suburban housewives could embrace.

7.   Movie stars and suburban housewives buy our clothes.

8.   Often thought of as the weekday pastime of suburban housewives, couponing is not just for tightwads and people living on limited budgets.

9.   Rowlands plays Mildred, a suburban housewife at a loss to know what to do with herself after her husband dies and her children leave home.

10.   Sitting in her breakfast nook, wearing a comfortably loose denim work shirt and black capris, Ms. Baker looks like a pretty suburban housewife.