ayah
Example Sentences
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Upstairs, Amer finds her sitting in the dark, the ayah fanning her with a folded newspaper.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She grabs a cup from the table and shakes it at the ayah.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
The ayah follows him out of the room and taps him on the elbow.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
“We offered to send him to the best schools,” his mother tells the ayah, nodding toward Amer.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
