nursemaid

Example Sentences

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Instead, it raids another ant species’ colonies for workers that it enslaves to nursemaid its young.

From New York Times

Rose, trembling between fear and lust, becomes Shirley’s nursemaid and her muse, her secret sharer and her prey.

From New York Times

It could not be the “nursemaid’s lullaby” of religion or the paranoid person’s account of a world out to get him.

From The Guardian

Byrne and his ex-wife, Gia, who serves as both protector and nursemaid to Christiana and her alters, also are on the suspect list.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, a young widow who has not left her house in a decade is persuaded by a doctor from the hospital to hire a nursemaid for her daughter.

From BBC