ayah

Example Sentences

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“We offered to send him to the best schools,” his mother tells the ayah, nodding toward Amer.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

Amer leaves the vegetables upstairs with the ayah and goes to Aunty Park for a walk.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

The ayah follows him out of the room and taps him on the elbow.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

Upstairs, his mother and the ayah are arguing over his mother’s handbag.

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