Example Sentences

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Yardsmen and scrubwomen stopped work, gathered around a sidetracked private car whence it came.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lives in an empty barnlike structure which has not been troubled by scrubwomen for months.

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He is a mild and scholarly Jesuit whose students are electricians, scrubwomen, plumbers, bus drivers, pipe fitters, and wire lathers.

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Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas to the scrubwomen.

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Ten thousand men working through the night had touched up the paint and staff and planted pansies and laid sod as a thousand scrubwomen washed, waxed, and polished the floors of the great buildings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson