nursemaid

Example Sentences

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She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

Gravity, an impatient professor and a sassy nursemaid hinder movers trying to deliver a player piano to an upstairs address.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

In the 1830s, in a young nation eager to connect to the past, Barnum toured with Joice Heth, an enslaved woman who claimed to be 161 years old and the former nursemaid to George Washington.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

Congenitally unable to assume the role of nursemaid administering consolation, Mr. Koch barreled through with a customary orneriness that left him offending one important constituency after another.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

She had given up her own child, a baby son, when her husband had died and she had come to our house to be my nursemaid.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan