cleaning woman
Example Sentences
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How did “The Shape of Water,” a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly, madly, deeply in love with a fish-man, wind up winning the Oscar for best picture?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021
Venise Jules, 55, a cleaning woman at a grade school and the mother of Ms. Molière, the unemployed secretary, said her entire family had voted for Mr. Moïse.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2019
Or were he and the cleaning woman just caught in the smoke and the flames?
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
