nursemaid

Example Sentences

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She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

In the 1830s, in a young nation eager to connect to the past, Barnum toured with Joice Heth, an enslaved woman who claimed to be 161 years old and the former nursemaid to George Washington.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

A posthumous Irish child, abandoned by his mother to a nursemaid, he was also an exasperated, petulant and insubordinate genius, an Anglican clergyman with an incurable sense of humiliation and gloom. 

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2017

P. L. Travers’s English nursemaid brings her spoonful of sugar and bottomless satchel to the Banks family’s London home in this Disney fantasy starring Julie Andrews.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2016

Turning back to my old nursemaid, I ask her what’s uppermost on my mind.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez