scullery

Example Sentences

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"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

Dunk and Egg’s camaraderie fits the same tradition, proposing scullery maids can become queens.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Of course, that life-changing event ends quite differently than the one remembered by a generation raised on Lesley Ann Warren mooning and crooning in her attractively appointed scullery.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

A cruel stepmother reduces her dead husband’s only child to the role of scullery maid, but a kindly beggar woman and some helpful mice bring about a change in the young woman’s fortunes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

When he took them through to Alice in the scullery, where he normally just put them down on the counter and left without saying a word, something made him stop and look at her.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman