ayah
Example Sentences
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She is tapping the arms of her chair when the ayah wheels her in for tea that afternoon.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
“They’re tearing down the old house,” his mother tells the ayah.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
“Weren’t we happy there. Take me out,” she tells the ayah, replacing her cup on its saucer.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
He finds the ayah napping on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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