How to Use housekeeping in a Sentence

housekeeping

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  • We took the computer offline to do some basic housekeeping.
  • Those who work in the laboratories and the housekeeping staff got shots too.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Hospital housekeeping and home health aides also got sick and died in higher numbers.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The housekeeping staff stepped in to help, changing diapers, feeding and bathing, rolling people over in bed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The employee was able to retrieve her keys when a housekeeping worker unlocked the office door.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Vila, a hotel housekeeping manager, said the limit on travel has forced her hotel to reduce her staff by two-thirds.
    — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Hotels tend to provide a higher caliber of service: daily housekeeping, room service, a concierge, and front desk help only a phone call away.
    — Ed Perkins, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Eco-friendly hotels increasingly are asking guests to forgo daily housekeeping or use their towels more than once.
    — Farhad Tabatabaei, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Finally, someone in the GOP was doing a little housekeeping!
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
  • During the pandemic, many hotels stopped offering daily room cleaning, or only do it on request—something housekeeping staff said makes end-of-stay cleaning more difficult.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Those who are not nurses are part of the housekeeping staff.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Now Gautem and other managers are picking up the slack — in housekeeping, the kitchen, and at the front desk.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The other is a woman in charge of the housekeeping staff at the resort hotel.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The housekeeping staff keep all the rooms infection free.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
  • At hotels, tip two to three francs for porters and door people and the same per night to housekeeping.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2024
  • About a hundred of the refugees work for Tallink, in kitchen and housekeeping positions.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That way, nobody — neither you nor the housekeeping staff — is put in harm’s way.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Some have found off-the-books jobs in construction and housekeeping.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The city pays $154 per night per room at the L.A. Grand, a sum that covers not just the rooms, but also food and housekeeping services.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Here there's a housekeeping fairy who makes my bed, launders my linens, and empties the trash.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2021
  • Tell is just as disturbed by Cirk's dirty, disheveled housekeeping as Cirk is, by the way.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The captain is a local guide, the first mate is the chef, and the nightly rate includes housekeeping, meals, drinks, snorkel equipment, and more.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Nitso of the Old Stone Inn said her hotel has had to outsource housekeeping jobs for the first time due to a lack of workers.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
  • It had not yet been cleaned by housekeeping, and it's believed that Coleman was the last person inside the room.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
  • There's no front desk, no daily housekeeping, and no on-site restaurant and bar.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2024
  • For housekeeping at hotels, the average tip tends to sit around $2 to $5 per day.
    — Bianca Bujan, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The hotel room is free, but the guest has to pay a housekeeping fee, luggage fee, cleaning fee, towel fee, etc.
    — Shep Hyken, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Here are the current housekeeping policies at some of the major hotel brands.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But her housekeeping resort gig can't cover the phone bill, the electricity bill, and the rent.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Her body was found the next morning by hotel housekeeping.
    — al, 8 Sep. 2022

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