ayah
Example Sentences
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“We offered to send him to the best schools,” his mother tells the ayah, nodding toward Amer.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
The ayah wheels her to the doors that open onto the balcony and over the threshold.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
She is tapping the arms of her chair when the ayah wheels her in for tea that afternoon.
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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