cleaning woman
Example Sentences
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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
The film was a delicate, delightfully weird love story between a cleaning woman and a fish-man kept at a top-secret government facility.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
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
This is evident as he harangues Wondrous, the cleaning woman who works in his wife's Greenwich Village townhouse.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021
The cleaning woman, always in a hurry, simply flung anything that was momentarily useless into Gregor's room.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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