housemaid
Example Sentences
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Worse yet, hours after Felix’s departure, the Platters’ housemaid came down with the plague.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Bids of up to £4,000 had been expected for the one-page note, which is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in Windsor and includes drawings of dogs, horses and children.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
A red flag for sure, but it’s not long before Nina is practically loading a harpoon gun with red flags and firing them at her new housemaid, left and right.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
She works as a housemaid in downtown and uses public transport daily.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
She paused, not knowing how to say, then, that she wished therefore to become once more a housemaid in Mistress Cutler’s Tavern.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
The best-known example is probably Jo Baker’s 2013 novel, “Longbourn,” which chronicles the hard and often joyless life of Sarah, one of the Bennets’ housemaids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
About 268,000 Filipinos currently work in Kuwait, including many housemaids.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2023
Saudi Arabia faces perennial labor shortages and may offer jobs to Thai factory, construction and shipyard workers, electricians and machine operators, petroleum and natural gas technicians, hotel and health personnel, cooks, and housemaids.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
There is now a concerted push, for example, to send more Sri Lankans overseas to work as housemaids, drivers and mechanics in the Middle East, with those emigrants expected to send their earnings home.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2022
If there had been housemaids here, during the morning, they had finished their work by now and gone downstairs.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
