ayah
Example Sentences
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The ayah follows him out of the room and taps him on the elbow.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She fishes a dirty hundred-rupee note out of a pocket of her handbag and gives it triumphantly to the ayah.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She grabs a cup from the table and shakes it at the ayah.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
“Weren’t we happy there. Take me out,” she tells the ayah, replacing her cup on its saucer.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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