ayah

Example Sentences

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She is tapping the arms of her chair when the ayah wheels her in for tea that afternoon.

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

“They’re tearing down the old house,” his mother tells the ayah.

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 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