cleaning woman

Example Sentences

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How did “The Shape of Water,” a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly, madly, deeply in love with a fish-man, wind up winning the Oscar for best picture?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

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

The cleaning woman, always in a hurry, simply flung anything that was momentarily useless into Gregor's room.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka