cleaning woman
Example Sentences
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“I had to keep the paint-room door locked to keep the cleaning woman and my daughter and anyone else from coming in,” she said of the basement where she painted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
This is evident as he harangues Wondrous, the cleaning woman who works in his wife's Greenwich Village townhouse.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021
Venise Jules, 55, a cleaning woman at a grade school and the mother of Ms. Molière, the unemployed secretary, said her entire family had voted for Mr. Moïse.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2019
However, once the cleaning woman had left the door to the living room slightly ajar, and it remained open even when the lodgers came in in the evening and the lights were put on.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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