How to Use maid in a Sentence

maid

noun

• She hired a maid to do the cleaning.
• Andrew’s daughter Lizzie Borden and the family’s maid were the only other people home at the time.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2024
• When a forest fire rages through the countryside, two sisters and the daughter of the aged family maid have to confront and reconcile their differences.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
• The ghosts of his past haunt him with the arrival of a new maid.
  — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The maid would come and dress me in the morning, then leave me there for the day.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
• There, Ethan will meet and fall in love with an Irish maid.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• The bodies were found by a maid after the guests failed to check out.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• His wife is in a maid outfit, and his mom is dressed as a drug lord.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
• The bodies were found by a maid Tuesday when the guests failed to check out.
  — Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri, NBC News, 17 July 2024
• Margaret works as a maid – and not just in any old house, mind you.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2021
• Yet a maid with a broom will always be looking at the sky.
  — Nick Remsen, CNN, 12 July 2022
• It’s not just the crown jewels—it’s the crown jewels, and the jewels of the maid, and the watch of the secretary!
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
• That’s where the princess grows up, yet, somehow fate returns her to the palace to work as a maid.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Why does the French maid so closely resemble the mistress of the house?
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• Your spoon was likely a gift to a maid or house servant.
  — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
• The men on the veranda and the little maid in the side yard hear Pianon give a loud cry.
  — Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a maid to avenge her sister’s death.
  — L Tong, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
• The maid, Camae, is a pretty young woman and a fan of the reverend.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• Her maid Ellen Bird was one of the survivors who got on a lifeboat and was later able to retell the encounter.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• All of a sudden, from my maid’s room on Rue Bichat, I was propelled.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Pratt worked as a maid in the homes of white residents, then at a flower shop.
  — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• Adele Symons is a maid who cleans houses in small Ontario towns to scrape by.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 26 Sep. 2020
• The maid who spent her Sunday near the ropewalks heard there would be a fight the following evening.
  — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Serena's greeted at the door by a maid, who asks her to wait for her host.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Then in 1870, Whistler betrayed her with a parlor maid, who bore him...
  — Gioia Diliberto, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
• Fred took a job at the ironworks and Erna worked as a hotel maid and at the poultry plant.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 28 July 2020
• His mother, Chen Yuqing, worked as a maid for the owner of an opium den.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• After waiting in the hallway, a maid had to let the neighbor back into the room to get her things.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2021
• My father, Gilles, rented the chambre de bonne—the one-room maid’s quarters—on the floor above.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
• But then, egged on by her maid Manthara, Kaikeyi abruptly changes her mind and calls in two boons owed her by the king.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024