ayah
Example Sentences
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She fishes a dirty hundred-rupee note out of a pocket of her handbag and gives it triumphantly to 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
Amer leaves the vegetables upstairs with the ayah and goes to Aunty Park for a walk.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
“They haven’t fixed it,” Amer tells the ayah.
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
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