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

“We offered to send him to the best schools,” his mother tells the ayah, nodding toward Amer.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

Upstairs, his mother and the ayah are arguing over his mother’s handbag.

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

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