cleaning woman

Example Sentences

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She worked incognito in jobs around the country at the bottom end of the pay scale: waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, a Walmart clerk, averaging about $7 an hour.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

“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

I was working as a cleaning woman in the library during the day and doing underground theater in the evening.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid's apartment on fourth floor.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin