How to Use housemaid in a Sentence

housemaid

noun

• The opera tells the tale of an old maid who has lived in the same house for 40 years with her housemaid.
  — Kathy Cichon, Elgin Courier-News, 16 May 2017
• Then there is Naima, who might be more than just a housemaid who has always worked for Nuri’s family.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• Odessa Young plays a housemaid who’s carrying on an affair with the neighbors’ son (O’Connor).
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Sep. 2021
• With Maidie Norman, as the housemaid Elvira, who tries to help Blanche get free.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 May 2017
• Elizabeth was first his housemaid and then his second wife.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• Fagan chose Anna Smith, later Bates, the head housemaid.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Last week, a housemaid in the western Indian city of Pune lost one of her many jobs, only to be flooded by offers from across the country.
  — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 10 Nov. 2019
• When she's shown doubling as a timid housemaid to a shifty burglar in a snap, our feels for this iteration of Selina Kyle went Hatha-up-and-away.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024
• Even the kindness of her fellow housemaid Pru cannot convince her to settle for such tough, demeaning work.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• Paul is established as a decent person, one who risks his own life early on to save a random housemaid.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Van Druten was writing the screenplay for Gaslight, the story of a husband slowly driving his wife into madness with the help of a young Cockney housemaid.
  — Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2022
• To hasten her return, Honey's 47-year-old mother moved to Qatar as a housemaid, pulling together the money needed to open a case in Dubai last month.
  — Fox News, 14 Dec. 2021
• What first started as astronomers' wives, daughters, even a housemaid grew into a group of stellar women.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• When Ada’s fingers fidgeted too much, a housemaid attempted to bag the little girl’s hands in black cotton.
  — Abigail Deutsch, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.
  — Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
• During the ceremony, three svelte housemaids eye Grace with silent disdain.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2019
• Margaret Hamilton's screen test Margaret Hamilton was a character actress who played a lot of housemaids.
  — Jeff Labrecque, EW.com, 17 June 2024
• Both had grandmothers who worked there as housemaids; both noted that there had been years of concerns about contamination and pollution from the lab.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 6 July 2018
• On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
  — Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
• The Don’s resident doctor (Roberto De Francesco) cynically prepares to operate, while the housemaid brings coffee and holds the boy down.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
• The poem isn’t diminished by learning that Vivien wrote wonderful next to the nervy wife’s dialogue in the manuscript, or that the cockney monologue at the end of the same section was modeled after the speech of the Eliots’ housemaid, Ellen Kellond.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Her job included dressing in costume to portray Caroline Branham, an enslaved housemaid, when greeting tourists on the grounds.
  — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• His mother, Nina (McGlone) Vann, a former sharecropper, worked as a housemaid and in a factory before opening a grocery store.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The housemaid, Anna (Naomi Ackie), whom Katherine manipulates to devastating ends, is black, adding a hint of racial strain to their dynamic.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 13 July 2017
• Pelé had at least six children among his marriages and other relationships, including daughter Sandra from an affair with a housemaid.
  — Liz Clarke, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Only a few characters regularly appear in Schulz’s stories—the narrator, often called Józef; his father, Jakub; the housemaid, Adela; rarely, his mother.
  — Ruth Franklin, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• Philippine officials have demanded that housemaids be allowed to hold their passports and cellphones, which is normal for skilled workers like teachers and office workers.
  — Time, 25 Apr. 2018
• Or maybe many of the women came from rural villages and were more fluent in local variations of the polka (originally invented, as the story sometimes goes, by a Bohemian housemaid).
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Yang Qingming, 69, worked as a housemaid and never qualified for employee insurance.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024