nanny

Example Sentences

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“I don’t want to make it sound like, ‘Oh, just home-school your kids and get a traveling nanny, and then you can have the whole cake,’” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I'm proud to have fostered one," Lee Kuan Yew famously wrote in one of his books.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

When the gold medal was confirmed, she embraced her two boys, who are both deaf, and the nanny of her children.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

“I’m a nanny, and I pick up a couple of kids from their preschool and I know and love so many kids with parents in pretty tenuous situations,” said McElroy, who is Irish American.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

“They were very often away. It was Molly, my nanny, who really raised me. After they died, it was decided I would live with my aunt in London.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie