How to Use housekeeper in a Sentence

housekeeper

noun
  • Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
    Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The star who greets housekeepers by name and dances with them in the hallways.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The pool man and the gardener each came two days a week; the housekeeper, four.
    Alan Judd, ajc, 13 June 2022
  • His mom was a housekeeper for a while, and as a boy, Dominguez went on jobs with her, too.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The housekeeper reportedly was concerned about the health of the dog and took it to the vet.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Sikes was in the home with her 8-year-old daughter and her housekeeper, DeGuerin said.
    Tom Orsborn, St. John Barned-Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2021
  • On the day Pearson was killed, his housekeeper arrived for work at the house.
    oregonlive, 8 July 2021
  • Both women played the role of housekeeper Mamie Johnson on the famed soap opera.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2021
  • Olvera got her start as a housekeeper and early on made around $13.25 an hour.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Tércia is a housekeeper by day who keeps her own house in order in the evenings.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Brown’s lawyer had challenged six of the nine claims filed by the housekeeper and her husband in July 2021.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And since 7,500 square feet is quite a lot of space to take care of yourself, the house comes with a private chef, a butler, and a housekeeper.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Roman Haller owes his life to a 20-year-old housekeeper.
    NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, come wash day, even the most diligent pet groomer and housekeeper will find fur on clothes, sheets, towels, and more.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Doris worked as a housekeeper, then a nurse's aid, struggling to provide for the children.
    jsonline.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • So, this really is the end — unless James plans to retell it once again, from the point of view of the housekeeper, the bodyguard — or the riding crop.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • After the war, Briscoe, on the other hand, still had his estate, a chauffeur, and a housekeeper.
    Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The housekeeper initially called deputies to the house, and then went to a sheriff's station to file a report.
    NBC News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Uli said that where hotel housekeepers may spend half an hour on a room, her cleanups take four or five hours in the campers and six hours in the cottage.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • The wavy coif and puffy jowls of the father disguised as a matronly housekeeper.
    Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • Spears allegedly slapped the housekeeper's phone out of the woman's hands.
    NBC News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • She’s been a housekeeper there for 38 years and counting, but retirement is out of reach at the moment.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • The family's housekeeper was stunned to find the remains of North's prank when Kim took the children to school the next day and instantly thought the worst.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 July 2022
  • The answer, in fact, is his housekeeper, Paula Fichtl, who tended to Freud’s treasures for some fifty years.
    Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • The husband's dead wife looms large, and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers may be one of the most memorable villains of all time.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There’s housekeepers and gardeners and pool boys and there’s girls.
    Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And for housekeepers, there was also more work to do than in their previous jobs.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Vickie was a housekeeper at a Marriott hotel and sang in the choir at her local church.
    Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Another housekeeper at the Hilton, Yolanda Chen, has so far not been lucky enough to get her job back.
    Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
  • His parents have gone to Europe for three months, leaving him in the care of the mostly absent housekeeper.
    Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023

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