How to Use housekeeper in a Sentence

housekeeper

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Barraza has been known to empty bedpans when the housekeeper is too busy.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Bly was born and raised in Montgomery; her mother was a housekeeper and her father a gravedigger.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • Medina is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper, and had done some work around the bishop’s house, Luna said.
    — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The housekeeper and grounds people are also happy to stay on with the future owner.
    — Emmamreynolds1, Robb Report, 14 July 2022
  • The body of Nelson Antônio da Conceição, the farm housekeeper who had disappeared, had lain in this ditch for days.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Murdaugh’s former law firm has sued him, as have the sons of his dead housekeeper, who died after a fall at one of the family’s homes in 2018.
    — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Murdaugh’s former law firm has sued him, as have the sons of his dead housekeeper, who died after a fall at one of the family's homes in 2018.
    — Fox News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Murdaugh's former law firm has sued him, as have the sons of his dead housekeeper, who died after a fall at one of the family's homes in 2018.
    — Michelle Liu, ajc, 13 Dec. 2021
  • According to a 1991 report from The New York Times, a window was left open after it was cleaned by a housekeeper.
    — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • One day a housekeeper, who was dusting the mirror, saw the reflection of a somber blonde woman behind her.
    — Julie Jordan, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Growing up in a small town of Mexico, Sanchez said her grandmother who had two jobs, as a housekeeper and restaurant manager, taught her work ethic.
    — Zoya Hasan, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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