maid

Example Sentences

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Yet even Honor is cowed by the household’s steely Yugoslav maid, Greta, who dismisses all heartbreaks and hysterics with the motto, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who turns up on the stoop of a high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Virgil, answering an ad for a maid job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

McGonigal's character Hazel is a maid in the show, which can involve carrying "giant silver trays and baskets of sweet treats".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

"It'd be nice for me to do something completely different. I'd love to do a comedy or I'd like to be a scullery maid in the kitchens in a period drama."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

A maid spilled a glass of wine on somebody.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff