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
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
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
Angela took the dish towel from the cleaning woman and bunched it against her face to muffle the wrenching sobs.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
